ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2026
Socio-economic determinants of household dietary diversity in a secondary African City: evidence from a community-based cross-sectional study in Bindura, Zimbabwe.
Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: The quality of diets in low-income African cities is shaped by more than food availability alone but also reflects household capability, the utility of infrastructure, consumption behaviour, coping mechanisms, and access to diverse sources of food. However, empirical evidence on the determinants of household dietary diversity in secondary African cities remains limited, despite the importance of understanding nutritional adequacy, which is vital for the growth and maintenance of bodily functions and for combating malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and excessive energy intake. Objective: This study examined the socio-economic predictors of household-level dietary diversity in Bindura municipal area, Zimbabwe, using a secondary re-analysis of cross-sectional household survey data collected in October 2014 from 200 urban and peri-urban households. Methods: To achieve this objective, dietary diversity was measured using the FAO-developed dietary diversity survey based on a 24-hour recall period, and associations were estimated using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, ANOVA, Spearman's rank correlation, and ordered logistic regression. Results: Household dietary diversity was negatively correlated with household food insecurity, indicating that households experiencing greater food access constraints tended to consume less diverse diets. The ordered logit model results revealed that access to transport, water and electricity, sources of vegetables, number of meals per day, and household coping mechanisms were significant predictors of higher dietary diversity. In contrast, household asset value showed a weak positive association. Conclusion: These findings suggest that dietary diversity in Bindura is shaped primarily by food access conditions, basic infrastructure, and household responses to economic stress rather than by demographic characteristics alone. Therefore, household food and nutrition policy in secondary cities should be integrated with service delivery, household resilience support, and local food-system planning to improve diet quality among vulnerable urban populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.