Identifying positive and negative deviants and factors associated with healthy dietary practices among young schoolchildren in Nepal: a mixed methods study

Table 1 Characteristics of the schoolchildren, parents, and household, in the control group and treatment group (stratified by deviants)^±

Variables	Category	Control group (n = 332)			Treatment group (n = 317)
Variables	Category	Positive Deviant (n = 23) ^*	Non-positive Deviant (n = 309)	Total n (prop.)	Negative deviants (n = 73)	Non-negative Deviants (n = 244)	Total n (prop.)
Sex	Boy	0.39	0.44	146 (0.44)	0.48	0.44	143 (0.45)
Sex	Girl	0.61	0.56	186 (0.56)	0.52	0.56	174 (0.55)
Ethnicity	Brahaman/Chhetri	0.17	0.36	117 (0.35)	0.29	0.29	93 (0.29)
	Dalits	0.13	0.10	33 (0.10)	0.04	0.09	24 (0.08)
	Adivasi/Janajatis	0.70	0.54	182 (0.55)	0.67	0.62	200 (0.63)
Parents’ literacy	Illiterate	0.52	0.56	186 (0.56)	0.49	0.61	184 (0.58)
Parents’ literacy	Literate^†	0.48	0.44	146 (0.44)	0.51	0.39	133 (0.42)
Parents’ Occupation	Farmer	0.78	0.78	259 (0.78)	0.79	0.83	261 (0.82)
Parents’ Occupation	Not farmer	0.22	0.22	73 (0.22)	0.21	0.17	56 (0.18)
Grandmother in household	Yes	0.26	0.21	72 (0.22)	0.36	0.24	84 (0.27)
Decision-maker—for what to cook	Mother	0.83	0.87	288 (0.87)	0.89	0.91	288 (0.91)
Decision-maker—for what to cook	Other family member	0.17	0.13	44 (0.13)	0.11	0.09	29 (0.09)
Produced vegetables in home garden	Yes	0.78	0.88	289 (0.87)	0.99	0.97	309 (0.97)
Responsible for managing home garden^‡	Mother	0.94	0.87	252 (0.87)	0.86	0.87	269 (0.87)
Responsible for managing home garden^‡	Other family member	0.06	0.13	37 (0.13)	0.14	0.13	40 (0.13)
Father helping in home garden^‡	Yes	0.67	0.54	158 (0.55)	0.50	0.46	146 (0.47)
Children assisting in home garden^‡	Yes	0.22	0.21	62 (0.22)	0.21	0.31	89 (0.29)
Money received for snacks	Yes	0.35	0.34	112 (0.34)	0.27	0.21	71 (0.22)

prop Proportion
^±A base package of R-software was used to perform the chi-square test (Pearson’s). However, no statistical significance was found (for a comprehensive table, see supplementary table 1)
^†Literate: those who can read and write
^‡the total number of samples is 289 and 307 in the control and treatment groups, respectively
^*total number of PDs for variables (^‡) is 18

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