Concordance and determinants of mothers' and children's diets in Nigeria: an in-depth study of the 2018 Demographic and Health Survey.

Programming to address child nutrition should be aimed at the mother-child dyad as their food consumption patterns are related and some food groups appear to be withheld from children. Stakeholders including governments, development partners, non-governmental organizations, donors and civil society can act on these findings in their efforts to address undernutrition in the global child population.