Table 4 Distribution of infant complimentary feeding index indicators
Six months (Baseline) | Nine months | Twelve months (Endline) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention (n = 180) | Control (n = 180) | p-value | Intervention (n = 173) | Control (n = 149) | p-value | Intervention (n = 160) | Control (n = 165) | p-value | |
Continued breastfeeding | 180 (100) | 177 (98.3) | 0.08 | 173 (100) | 146 (97.9) | 0.06 | 160 (100) | 161 (97.6) | 0.05 |
Not Bottle feeding | 150 (83.3) | 130 (72.2) | 0.01 | 156 (90.2) | 117 (79.1) | 0.01 | 146 (91.3) | 132 (80) | 0.00 |
Initiation of complementary feeding | 160 (88.9) | 152 (84.4) | 0.17 | ||||||
Dietary diversity (past 24 h) | |||||||||
Low (no diversity) | 21 (11.7) | 29 (16.1) | 0.46 | 2 (1.2) | 1 (0.7) | 0.00 | 0 (0) | 1 (0.6) | 0.00 |
Medium (1–2/1-3a diversity) | 103 (57.2) | 100 (55.6) | 45 (26) | 86 (57.7) | 50 (31.25) | 83 (50.3) | |||
High (≥ 3/ ≥ 4a diversity) | 56 (31.1) | 51 (28.3) | 126 (72.8) | 62 (41.6) | 110 (68.8) | 81 (49.1) | |||
Food group frequency | |||||||||
Low (Nil) | 24 (13.3) | 40 (22.2) | 0.06 | 0 (0) | 11 (11.6) | 0.00 | 0 (0) | 5 (4.8) | 0.03 |
Medium (1–2/1-3a food group) | 91 (50.6) | 89 (49.4) | 81 (62.3) | 55 (57.9) | 85 (69.1) | 63 (60.6) | |||
High (≥ 3/ ≥ 4a food group) | 65 (36.1) | 51 (28.3) | 49 (37.7) | 29 (30.5) | 38 (30.9) | 36 (34.6) | |||
Meal frequency (last 24 h) | |||||||||
Low (no meal was given) | 20 (11.1) | 30 (16.7) | 2 (1.2) | 1 (0.7) | 0(0) | 1(0.6) | |||
Medium (Only single/ 1-2a meal given) | 18 (10) | 12 (6.7) | 0.20 | 5 (2.8) | 10 (6.7) | 0.25 | 2(1.3) | 12 (7.3) | 0.02 |
High (≥ 2/ ≥ 3a meals given) | 142 (78.9) | 138 (76.7) | 166 (96) | 138 (92.6) | 158(98.8) | 152 (92.1) | |||
CFI score | |||||||||
Mean (± SD) | 8.71 (± 0.1) | 8.16 (± 0.1) | 0.01 | 9.96 (± 0.1) | 9.16 (± 0.1) | 0.00 | 9.91 (± 0.1) | 9.46 (± 0.1) | 0.00 |