Factors Affecting Defaulting in Children's Supplemental Feeding Programs in Chad, Kenya, and Sudan Public
Schroeder, Megan (2016)
Published
Abstract
Background. One key measure of supplemental feeding program (SFP) effectiveness is the recovery rate. Defaulting is a main factor undermining the recovery rate and very common in SFPs. However, to date, no studies have quantitatively investigated factors associated with defaulting in SFPs.
Objective. This study evaluated baseline factors associated with defaulting in children's SFPs in an urban and semi-urban community in Chad, a rural, semi-nomadic community in Kenya, and an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Sudan.
Methods. Data were collected from questionnaires (N = 687 (Chad), N = 297 (Kenya), N = 808 (Sudan)) administered to caregivers of children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) ages 6-59 months upon their admission into an SFP. The questionnaire collected information on household characteristics, SFP accessibility, opportunity costs to attend the SFP, knowledge of the SFP, and reasons for attending. Country-specific multivariate logistic regression models were built using backward elimination to evaluate factors associated with the outcome of interest, SFP defaulting.
Results. Program defaulting was common (48.5% (Chad), 25.6% (Kenya), 42.9% (Sudan)). In multivariable analyses, the primary factors (p<0.05) reducing the risk of defaulting included: children were refused admission to SFPs previously, the precipitating reason for becoming MAM was illness, keeping livestock, food insecurity, a familial support system in the same house, the caregiver's age, an IDP residency status, and trying to register a child for the SFP previously. The primary factors increasing the risk of defaulting included: higher opportunity costs and possible stigma/shame in community.
Conclusions. We found factors associated with SFP defaulting were locale-specific. Our data indicate that program implementers should address locale-specific opportunity costs, stigma/shame associated with malnutrition, and caregivers with little/no familial support systems in the same households by identifying and providing additional support to these households and implementing community level stigma reducing programs.
Table of Contents
LITERATURE REVIEW 1
Acute Malnutrition 1
Interventions Addressing Acute Malnutrition 1
Targeted Supplemental Feeding Programs 3
Efficacy of Feeding Programs 4
Defaulting 5
Defaulting Rates 6
Factors affecting Defaulting in Therapeutic Feeding Programs for SAM 6
Factors affecting Defaulting in Supplemental Feeding Programs 10
Conclusion 15
Student Contribution 18
Thesis Manuscript 18
Title Page 18
ABSTRACT 19
INTRODUCTION 21
METHODS 22
Ethics statement 22
Population and Sample 23
Data collection 25
Outcomes 26
Data Analysis 26
RESULTS 27
Significant Factors 27
Chad (Table 2). 27
Kenya (Table 3). 28
Sudan (Table 4). 28
Non-significant Factors (Data is not shown) 29
DISCUSSION 29
Significant Factors 29
Non-significant Factors 33
Limitations 34
CONCLUSIONS 34
Tables 36
Table 1. 36
Table 2. 37
Table 3. 39
Table 4. 41
Figures 45
Figure 1. 45
Conclusions and Recommendations 46
References 48
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