Table 1.
Characteristics of Respondents in Intervention and Control Union Councils at Baseline
| Intervention (n = 1,008) |
Control (n = 1,010) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mother's Age | |||
| 24 or younger | 41.3 | 39.5 | NS |
| 25-29 | 34.7 | 33.2 | |
| 30 or older | 24.0 | 27.3 | |
| Parity/Living children | |||
| 1 | 24.4 | 22.4 | NS |
| 2 | 23.0 | 24.0 | |
| 3 | 19.4 | 18.2 | |
| 4 | 14.5 | 13.1 | |
| 5 or more | 18.7 | 22.4 | |
| Mother's education | |||
| None | 58.2 | 69.5 | < 0.001 |
| Primary | 7.6 | 6.5 | |
| Middle | 12.4 | 11.1 | |
| Secondary | 8.9 | 7.4 | |
| Matriculate or higher | 12.8 | 5.4 | |
| Travel time to nearest health facility | |||
| More than 15 minutes | 46.9 | 52.3 | < 0.05 |
| 15 minutes or less | 53.1 | 47.7 | |
| Television viewership | |||
| Never or sometimes | 78.5 | 88.6 | < 0.001 |
| Daily | 21.5 | 11.4 | |
| Wealth quintiles | |||
| Fifth/poorest | 19.9 | 23.1 | NS |
| Fourth | 19.2 | 19.7 | |
| Third | 19.9 | 18.1 | |
| Second | 19.8 | 19.7 | |
| First/non-poor | 21.0 | 19.4 | |
| 100.0 | 100.0 |
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, NS = not significant.