Table 1 Baseline and household characteristics of study participants
From: Effect of green leafy vegetables powder on anaemia and vitamin-A status of Ghanaian school children
Factor | Treatment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Control (n = 51) | CGLVP (n = 53) | Difference | P-value |
|  | (Mean ± SD) | (Mean ± SD) |  |  |
Age (years) | 7.3 ± 1.7 | 6.7 ± 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.081 |
Gender (%) | ||||
 Boys | 51.0 | 50.9 | 0.1 | 0.765 |
 Girls | 49.0 | 49.1 | 0.1 | 0.761 |
Anthropometric indices | ||||
 Weight (kg) | 21.6 ± 3.9 | 22.9 ± 4.9 | 1.4 | 0.113 |
 Height (cm) | 117.1 ± 11.3 | 120.6 ± 11.1 | 3.6 | 0.110 |
 Weight-for-age z score | −0.485 ± 0.92 | −0.731 ± 0.91 | 0.246 | 0.193 |
 Height-for-age z score | −0.722 ± 1.15 | −0.59 2 ± 1.17 | 0.130 | 0.567 |
 Body Mass Index (kg/m2) | −0.388 ± 0.92 | −0.176 ± 0.91 | 0.212 | 0.134 |
 Stunting (%) | 17.6 | 13.2 | 4.4 | 0.530 |
 Wasting (%) | 15.7 | 11.3 | 4.4 | 0.514 |
 Thinness (%) | 3.9 | 5.7 | 1.8 | 0.281 |
 Overweight (%) | 3.9 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.689 |
 Malaria parasitaemia (%) | 37.3 | 34.0 | 3.3 | 0.726 |
Mosquito net use (%) | ||||
 Yes | (86.3) | (90.6) |  | 0.491 |
 No | (13.7) | (9.4) |  |  |
Beneficiary of National Health Insurance Scheme (%) | ||||
 Yes | 88.3 | 83.0 |  | 0.452 |
 No | 11.7 | 17.0 |  |  |
Parental education (%) | ||||
 Formal education | 94.1 | 96.2 |  | 0.712 |
 Informal education | 5.9 | 3.8 |  |  |
Parental occupation (%) | ||||
 Formal sector | 11.8 | 1.9 |  | 0.110 |
 Informal sector | 88.2 | 98.1 |  |  |