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. 2023 Jul 7;11:1120253. doi: 10.3389/fped.2023.1120253

Table 4.

Mean number of hours spent on different activities, last normal day, 18 months.

Activity Overall Control Intervention I-C difference (95% CI) p-value
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Total respondents 603 300 303
Household chores 6.617 6.402 6.831 0.428 0.169
(2.479) (2.327) (2.607) (−0.200/1.050)
Praying 0.017 0.012 0.023 0.01 0.155
(0.079) (0.061) (0.093) (−0.004/0.026)
Income generating activities 0.524 0.535 0.514 −0.021 0.898
(1.319) (1.373) (1.266) (−0.332/0.289)
Caring for the elderly 0.011 0.002 0.018 0.015 0.207
(0.149) (0.030) (0.208) (−0.008/0.039)
Leisure 4.545 4.818 4.274 −0.544 0.103
(2.560) (2.988) (2.019) (−1.22/0.138)
Travelling 0.418 0.393 0.442 0.049 0.766
(1.292) (0.944) (1.563) (−0.298/0.396)
Other activities 0.599 0.652 0.547 −0.104 0.410
(1.028) (1.107) (0.942) (−0.364/0.155)
Child care activities (0–2 years) 2.595 2.687 2.503 −0.184 0.549
(2.507) (2.904) (2.041) (−0.817/0.448)
 Caring for children (general) 0.508 0.607 0.410 −0.196 0.215
(1.512) (2.059) (0.581) (−0.519/0.125)
 Bathing children 0.240 0.236 0.244 0.008 0.762
(0.273) (0.219) (0.319) (−0.046/0.062)
 Feeding/breastfeeding the baby 1.347 1.370 1.324 −0.045 0.719
(1.414) (1.395) (1.433) (−0.302/0.212)
 Changing baby's clothes/diaper 0.103 0.096 0.110 0.014 0.546
(0.162) (0.137) (0.184) (−0.033/0.061)
 To calm/quieten a crying baby 0.085 0.063 0.107 0.044 0.467
(0.339) (0.241) (0.413) (−0.075/0.164)
 Playing with children 0.293 0.292 0.294 0.002 0.978
(0.692) (0.650) (0.732) (−0.16/0.165)
 Talking or reading to the child 0.016 0.022 0.011 −0.011 0.324
(0.137) (0.177) (0.079) (−0.031/0.009)
Caring for children older than 2 years 0.485 0.476 0.493 0.017 0.890
(0.829) (0.780) (0.875) (−0.202/0.237)
In bed during the night 8.187 8.226 8.148 −0.078 0.558
(1.209) (1.193) (1.227) (−0.349/0.192)