TABLE 2a.
Maternal social support characteristics
| Variables | Midline-II |
Endline |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C |
M |
M&F |
Total |
C |
M |
M and F |
Total |
|
| % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | |
| Support the mother most | ||||||||
| Husband | 35.9 (33) | 45.6 (57) | 51.2 (62) | 45.0 (152) | 52.2 (46) | 40.3 (48) | 61.3 (68) | 50.9 (162) |
| Peers or Neighbors | 16.3 (15) | 13.6 (17) | 16.5 (20) | 15.4 (52) | 11.4 (10) | 10.9 (13) | 8.1 (9) | 10.1 (32) |
| Other relatives | 34.8 (32) | 25.6 (32) | 23.1 (28) | 27.2 (92) | 21.6 (19) | 30.3 (36) | 21.6 (24) | 24.8 (79) |
| Other | 1.0 (1) | 2.4 (3) | 0.9 (1) | 1.5 (5) | 6.8 (6) | 4.2 (5) | 4.5 (5) | 5.0 (16) |
| No one | 12.0 (11) | 12.8 (16) | 8.3 (10) | 10.9 (37) | 8.0 (7) | 14.3 (17) | 4.5 (5) | 9.2 (29) |
| Maternal Social support1 | ||||||||
| Very low or none | 6.5 (6) | 1.6 (2) | 1.7 (2) | 3.0 (10) | 17.0 (15) | 5.0 (6) | 1.8 (2) | 7.2 (23) |
| Low | 73.9 (68) | 36.0 (45) | 14.0 (17) | 38.5 (130) | 76.1 (67) | 33.6 (40) | 3.6 (4) | 34.9 (111) |
| Moderate | 17.4 (16) | 54.4 (68) | 49.6 (60) | 42.6 (144) | 4.5 (4) | 49.6 (59) | 21.6 (24) | 27.4 (87) |
| Optimal/high | 2.2 (2) | 8.0 (10) | 34.7 (42) | 16.0 (54) | 2.3 (2) | 11.8 (14) | 73.0 (81) | 30.5 (97) |
| Total social support score (%) | ||||||||
| Mean ± SD | 38.6 ± 9.7 | 53.5 ± 14.8 | 63.8 ± 14.3 | 53.2 ± 13.0 | 34.6 ± 9.5 | 51.0 ± 11.8 | 78.7 ± 6.7 | 56.0 ± 9.3 |
Abbreviations: C, control; M, mothers-only; M and F, parents-combined arms.
1
Maternal perceived social support mean score categorized into optimal (>4 and ≤5); moderate (>3 and ≤4), low (>2 and ≤3), and none or very low support (≤2) Sherbourne and Stewart (1991).