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Assessment of child feeding practices using a summary index: stability over time and association with child growth in urban Madagascar.

Mourad M Moursi, Yves Martin-Prével, Sabrina Eymard-Duvernay, Gilles Capon, Serge Trèche, Bernard Maire, and Francis Delpeuch

Am J Clin Nutr 87(5):1472-9 (2008) PMID 18469273

Previous studies investigating the association between an infant and child feeding index (ICFI) and length-for-age were based on a cross-sectional design and on the assumption that data collected with brief recalls could provide information about more enduring processes.

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