The association between exposure to a radio campaign on nutrition and mothers' nutrition- and health-related attitudes and minimal acceptable diet of children 6-36 months old: a quasi-experimental trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a radio campaign involving serial 10-minute drama episodes, 10-minute on air discussion of each episode by trained community health workers and 30-minute phone-ins from listeners in improving mothers' nutrition- and health-related attitudes (HNRAs) and children's minimum acceptable diet (MAD).

Design: A two-arm quasi-experimental trial with a pre-post design was used to quantify the effect of a radio campaign on nutrition before and immediately after the 6-month intervention. Difference-in-difference (DID) analysis was performed to assess the intervention's effect.

Magnitude and Predictors of Dietary Diversity among HIV-Infected Adults on Antiretroviral Therapy: The Case of North-Western, Ghana.

Introduction: Though people living with HIV/AIDS require a good combination of antiretroviral therapy and healthy dietary habits for a quality life and positive medical outcomes, little is, however, known regarding the dietary practices of HIV-positive patients who receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Lawra Municipality.

Objective: This study assessed the magnitude and factors associated with dietary diversity among HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Methods: This study was a facility-based cross-sectional study of 269 study participants recruited using a systematic random sampling technique.

Relationship between home garden ownership and the consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Objective: This study assessed the extent to which access to home gardens associate with the frequency of fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption.

Setting: The study was carried out in fifty rural communities in Northern Ghana where food insecurity and malnutrition including micronutrient deficiencies are prevalent.

Design: A community-based comparative analytical cross-sectional study.

Independent and joint contributions of inadequate antenatal care timing, contacts and content to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Background: Poor quality and inadequate of antenatal care (ANC) visits during pregnancy may increase the risk of preventable adverse pregnancy outcomes. We tested the hypothesis that the adequacy of ANC utilization combined with quality of ANC services will reduce the risk of low birth weight (LBW) and preterm delivery (P T D) in the Tamale metropolis of Ghana.

Materials And Methods: A facility-based analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 553 postpartum women who had delivered within the last 12 months prior to the study.

Fathers' level of involvement in childcare activities and its association with the diet quality of children in Northern Ghana.

Objective: This study assessed the level of fathers' involvement in childcare activities and its association with the diet quality of their children in Northern Ghana.

Setting: The study was carried out in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana. The people in the study area mostly depend on agriculture as their main occupation.