A pre-post pilot study of peer nutritional counseling and food insecurity and nutritional outcomes among antiretroviral therapy patients in Honduras

Table 3 Pre- and post-intervention changes in food insecurity and nutritional outcomes^±

Variable	Food insecurity (8 items)	Food insecurity (15 items)	Nutritional knowledge (13 items)	# eating occasions in past 24 h	# food types at each meal (24 h)	BMI	Mid arm circum.	Waist circum.
Variable	N = 356	N = 303	N = 356	N = 364	N = 364	N = 356	N = 356	N = 356
Nutritional counseling treatment	−0.47 (0.19)*	−1.16 (0.40)**	0.88 (0.11)***	0.30 (0.07)***	0.15 (0.04)***	−0.30 (0.38)	−0.10 (0.40)	−1.46 (0.84)
Female gender	0.20 (0.32)	0.49 (0.71)	0.25 (0.17)	0.03 (0.08)	−0.16 (0.06)*	1.42 (0.42)***	−0.69 (0.63)	1.60 (0.94)
Age	−0.01 (0.01)	0.00 (0.02)	0.00 (0.00)	0.00 (0.00)	0.00 (0.00)	0.03 (0.02)	0.04 (0.02)*	0.12 (0.04)**
Household size	−0.03 (0.04)	0.04 (0.08)	0.00 (0.02)	0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)	0.14 (0.08)	0.13 (0.08)	0.48 (0.17)**
Not working	0.48 (0.23)*	1.26 (0.47)**	−0.22 (0.13)	−0.16 (0.08)	−0.04 (0.05)	0.42 (0.45)	0.56 (0.47)	0.84 (0.99)
Less than completed primary ed.	0.95 (0.20)***	2.14 (0.41)***	−0.25 (0.11)*	−0.18 (0.07)*	−0.12 (0.04)**	−0.59 0.40)	−0.26 (0.42)	−1.15 (0.88)

***p < .001; **p < .01; *p < .05
± Nutritional counseling treatment and covariate effects were estimated by mixed-effect linear regression models adjusted for within-participant correlations and fitted by restricted maximum likelihood estimators

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