Infant feeding practices among HIV exposed infants using summary index in Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Table 4 Internal consistency of CS-ICFI and its correlation with ICFI components among HIV exposed infants in Sidama Zone, South Ethiopia, 2012

	All (n = 175)		6-8 months (n = 69)		9-11 months		12-17
					(n = 44)		months (n = 62)
Cronbach’s α^¢	0.67		0.68		0.70		0.71
Components of ICFI	r*	α‟	r*	α‟	r*	α‟	r*	α‟
Meal frequency score^#	0.81	0.56	0.77	0.55	0.68	0.6	0.78	0.59
Dietary diversity score^#	0.80	0.59	0.69	0.55	0.61	0.61	0.73	0.62
7 day food frequency	0.71	0.6	0.53	0.56	0.4	0.64	0.61	0.64
Psycho social support during food refusal^#	0.32	0.67	0.33	0.68	0.27	0.67	.0.50	0.67
Infant get help to eat^#	0.65	0.65	0.44	0.65	0.35	0.65	0.56	0.66
Bottle feeding^#	-0.15	0.71	0.41	0.72	-0.06	0.70	0.10	0.72
Washing hands before cooking child food^#	0.67	0.67	0.29	0.67	0.20	0.67	0.24	0.68
Wash hands before feeding ^#	0.67	0.67	0.28	0.55	0.23	0.67	0.39	0.69
Current breast feeding^#	0.02	0.71	0.46	0.72	0.27	0.66	0.27	0.70

^¢α value when all items included *correlation of each component with CS-ICFI ‟α value when Item removed, ^#24 hour recall.

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