Table 2.

Iodine knowledge scores among pregnant and lactating women^*

	Pregnant women (n 1181)		Lactating women (n 504)
Iodine knowledge score	n	%	n	%
Total score†
Mean	12·59		12·27
sd	2·66		2·86
Low knowledge	152	12·9	20	4·0
Medium knowledge	867	73·4	416	82·5
High knowledge	162	13·7	68	13·5

^*Values are presented as the Mean (sd), or n (%). Differences in the score were tested with independent samples t test and one-way ANOVA.

^†Scores range from 0 to 23.