TABLE 2.
General linear model for the association of food insecurity and invitation time to start a prenatal food supplementation program (usual invitation: ~20 wk of gestation; early invitation: ~9 wk of gestation) with maternal-infant interaction scores (NCAST) among Bangladeshi mothers and infants (3.4–4.0 mo of age) in the MINIMat study1
| NCAST scores at 3.8–4.0 mo |
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| B | 95% CI | P value | |
| Intercept | 66.3 | 53.9, 78.7 | 0.001 |
| Food insecurity2 | −0.8 | −1.5, −0.1 | 0.039 |
| Food supplement | |||
| Early invitation | −20.2 | −36.9, −3.5 | 0.018 |
| Usual invitation | 0 | — | — |
| Food insecurity × food supplement | |||
| Food insecurity × early invitation | 1.2 | 0.3, 2.2 | 0.012 |
| Food insecurity × usual invitation | 0 | — | — |
| R2 | 0.04 | ||
1
Values are 95% Wald's CI. MINIMat, Maternal Infant Nutritional Interventions Matlab; NCAST, Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training Feeding Scale.
2
Food insecurity was continuous, with higher scores corresponding to more severe food insecurity.