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Association between Sociodemographic Factors and Dietary Patterns in Children Under 24 Months of Age: A Systematic
Claudia Gutiérrez-Camacho1, Lucia Méndez-Sánchez2, Miguel Klünder-Klünder3
1Physical Therapy Research Unit, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, and Medicine Faculty of Autonomous National University, Mexico City 06720, Mexico.
Background:
Understanding early-life complementary feeding dietary patterns and their determining factors could lead to better ways of improving nutrition in early childhood. The purpose of this review was to evaluate evidence of the association between sociodemographic factors and dietary patterns (DPs) in children under 24 months.
Methods:
Medline (PubMed), Cochrane Central, NICE guidelines, and Trip database were searched for observational studies that evaluated sociodemographic factors and their associations with DP.
Results:
Seven studies were selected for the present review. High education level among mothers was inversely associated with unhealthy DPs and positively associated with healthy DPs. Higher household income was negatively associated with unhealthy DPs. Four studies showed a positive association between low household income and unhealthy DPs and three studies showed a positive association between higher household income and healthy DPs. Additionally, in younger mothers, body mass index (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2) and number of children were positively associated with unhealthy DPs.
Conclusions:
This review provides evidence of a positive association between mothers' higher education level, higher household income, higher maternal age, and healthy dietary patterns as well as a negative association between these factors and unhealthy dietary patterns. Further studies from low- and middle-income countries are needed for comparison with associations showed in this review.
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