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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2010 Dec;35(6):667–675. doi: 10.1007/s10900-010-9270-5

Table 6.

a. 24-montha BMI, weight and height-for-age Z-scores
tribe A
N pairs=53
tribe B
N pairs=56
tribe C
N pairs=68
Total B+C
N pairs=124
BMI for age Z-scores
Study populations 2.69 (1.06) 1.41 (1.57) 2.00 (1.44) 1.73 (1.52)
PedNSS (comparisons) 1.96 (1.47) 1.35 (1.26) 1.74 (1.18) 1.56 (1.23)
Weight for age Z-score
Study populations 1.74 (0.83) 1.15 (1.28) 1.22 (1.25) 1.19 (1.26)
PedNSS (comparisons) 1.38 (0.90) 1.09 (1.18) 1.06 (1.16) 1.07 (1.17)
Height for age Z-score
Study populations −0.34 (1.45) 0.21 (1.40) −0.38 (1.12) 0.12 (128)
PedNSS (comparisons) −0.08 (1.42) 0.20 (1.10) −0.28 (1.27) −0.07 (1.22)
b. Intervention effects on changes in anthropometric measures from birth to 24 months
tribe A
N pairs=53
tribe B
N pairs=56
tribe C
N pairs=68
Total B+C
N pairs=124
BMI for age Z-score
Change from 0–24 mos—Study populations 2.92 (1.82) 1.86 (1.72) 2.44 (1.84) 2.18 (1.80)
Change from 0–24 mos—PedNSS (comparison) 2.03 (2.22) 1.74 (1.46) 2.23 (1.52) 2.01 (1.50)
Intervention Effecta -0.81, p=0.025 -0.70, p=.036 -0.75, p=.016
Weight for age Z-score
Change from 0–24 mos—Study populations 1.57 (1.64) 0.52 (1.35) 1.20 (1.50) 0.89 (1.46)
Change from 0–24 mos—PedNSS (comparison) 1.22 (1.75) 0.41 (1.23) 1.01 (1.19) 0.75 (1.24)
Intervention Effect -0.29, p=.167 -0.20, p=.242 -0.24, p=.173
Height for age Z-score
Change from 0–24 mos—Study populations −0.90 (1.81) −1.59 (1.67) −0.97 (1.52) −1.25 (1.61)
Change from 0–24 mos—PedNSS (comparison) −0.43 (2.37) −1.62 (1.42) −1.01 (1.42) −1.27 (1.45)
Intervention Effect 0.28, p=.798 0.17, p= .700 0.23, p=.781

All p-values are one-sided, to detect a decrease in BMI in tribes receiving the community+family intervention relative to the tribe receiving only the community intervention.

a

Change from birth to 24m, compared to tribe A, adjusted for PedNSS data as described in the text, and adjusted for baseline values