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Designing a Contextualized Food-Based Strategy to Improve the Dietary Diversity of Children in Rural Farming Households in Central Uganda (Record no. 131313)

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Personal name Deborah Nabuuma
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Title Designing a Contextualized Food-Based Strategy to Improve the Dietary Diversity of Children in Rural Farming Households in Central Uganda
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Summary, etc. biblio.abstract Background:Food-based strategies have a high potential of improving the diet quality and reducing the prevalence of nutrient deficiencies in agriculture-dependent communities. Their design is however complex with trade-offs that are rarely systematically presented to allow replication and efficient contextualization.<br/>Objective:The systematic design of a food-based strategy to improve the dietary diversity of children in rural farming communities in Uganda.<br/>Methods:The intervention mapping protocol was used to provide a systematic approach to developing theory-based and evidence-based intervention methods and strategy.<br/>Results:The priority behavioral and environmental determinants identified were related to food production, consumption, and efficacy while the personal determinants focused on knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, attitude, and outcome expectations. The aim of the resulting strategy was set to improve the availability, accessibility, and consumption of diverse foods, with a particular focus on production diversity, production practices, market access, and market diversity. Behaviour change methods were selected to enhance ability and self-efficacy, strategic goal setting, and provision of feedback. The strategy focused on household groups for learning, demonstration, practice, and social support. The validation showed that the determinants and actors incorporated in the strategy were important and relevant for improving the productivity, food availability, dietary diversity, livelihoods, and health of rural farming households and communities.<br/>Conclusion:Application of the protocol yielded a contextualized food-based strategy that can be adjusted for use in other smallholder contexts in developing countries by piloting implementation plans based on the strategy; reassessing the key determinants and implementing the revised strategy; or replicating the whole design process.<br/>Plain language titleDesigning a Food-Based Strategy to Improve the Dietary Diversity of Children in Farming Households in Central Uganda<br/>Plain language summaryFood-based strategies have a high potential of improving the diet quality of communities that depend on agriculture for their food and livelihoods. However, the design of food-based strategies is complex and rarely systematically presented to allow replication and efficient contextualization. The intervention mapping protocol was used to systematically design a food-based strategy to improve the dietary diversity of children in rural farming communities in Uganda. Through this process, the main factors influencing dietary diversity were identified. The factors were related to food production and consumption, knowledge, skills, self-assuredness, attitude, and the expected outcomes. The developed strategy was designed to improve the availability, accessibility, and consumption of diverse foods. The strategy mainly focused on the diversity of foods produced by households, the production practices used, household access to markets, and the diversity of foods available in these markets. Household groups were central to the selected behavior change methods as they would provide an environment for learning, demonstration, practice, and provide social support. The strategy and its development process can be used as per the implementation plan or further adjusted for use in other smallholder settings in developing countries.
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Subject <a href="behavior change">behavior change</a>
-- <a href=" food-based strategy"> food-based strategy</a>
-- <a href="dietary diversity">dietary diversity</a>
-- <a href=" strategy development"> strategy development</a>
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Personal name Beatrice Ekesa
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Place, publisher, and date of publication Sage Publication
Title Food & Nutrition Bulletin
International Standard Serial Number 0379-5721
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNDT Juhu SNDT Juhu 07/03/2025   JP184.3 07/03/2025 07/03/2025 Journal Article