Table 1.
Early characteristics of the tested participants* of the treatment group, data collected during NNIPS-2 trial, 1994–1997
| Characteristics | Vitamin A |
Placebo |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N=207 |
N=174 |
|||
| N | Per cent | n | Per cent | |
| Participant child | ||||
| Male | 99 | (47.8) | 81 | (46.6) |
| Born 1994 or 1995 | 85 | (41.1) | 70 | (40.2) |
| Born 1996 or 1997 | 122 | (58.9) | 104 | (59.8) |
| Missing neonatal anthropometry2 | 39 | (18.8) | 55 | (31.6) |
| Participant mother | ||||
| 66 | (31.9) | 59 | (33.9) | |
| Mother ever XN† | 17 | (8.2) | 27 | (15.5) |
| Missing maternal anthropometry2 | 83 | (40.1) | 88 | (50.6) |
| Household SES | ||||
| Missing SES | 10 | (4.8) | 8 | (4.6) |
| High caste Hindu | 20 | (10.2) | 22 | (13.3) |
| Mother can read | 23 | (11.7) | 18 | (10.8) |
| Father can read | 110 | (55.8) | 93 | (56.0) |
| Family has a radio | 64 | (32.5) | 55 | (33.1) |
| Family owns any land | 170 | (86.3) | 137 | (82.5) |
| Thatch roof house | 62 | (31.5) | 40 | (24.1) |
| Tile roof house | 133 | (67.5) | 126 | (75.9) |
| Salt ID≥30 ppm‡ | 121 | (67.2) | 99 | (66.9) |
| N |
 (SD) |
n |
(SD) |
|
| Neonatal anthropometry§ | ||||
| Weight-for-age z-score | 167 | −1.66 (1.12) | 118 | −1.66 (1.00) |
| Length-for-age z-score | 167 | −1.46 (1.23) | 119 | −1.37 (1.10) |
| Head circumference-for-age z-score | 164 | −1.61 (1.10) | 117 | −1.61 (1.21) |
| Maternal anthropometry¶ | ||||
| Height (m) | 124 | 151.72 (5.18) | 86 | 151.40 (5.56) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 124 | 19.31 (2.12) | 86 | 19.62 (2.11) |
*N=381 children who participated in UNIT, including 3 injured children who could not complete MABC.
†p<0.05 χ2 test with 1 degree of freedom.
‡n=53 missing, 27 vitamin A, 26 placebo.
§Children were weighed and measured in their homes between 3 and 71 days after birth, mean age 12.2 days, median age 10 days.
¶Women were weighed and measured during the first trimester of pregnancy, 1994–1997.
BMI, body mass index; MABC, Movement Assessment Battery for Children; NNIPS-2, the Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project Sarlahi-2; salt ID, salt iodine; SES, socioeconomic status; UNIT, Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test.