Table 2:

Characteristics of children and their caregivers and response rate in the 7th week

	Total		Group 1		Group 2		χ2	p Value
Characters	N	%	n	%	n	%
Township
1	123	43.5	59	41.6	64	45.4	0.43	0.52
2	160	56.5	83	58.5	77	54.6
Child gender
Male	157	55.5	83	58.5	74	52.5	1.02	0.31
Female	126	44.5	59	41.6	67	47.5
Child's age in days	283	373.3 (322.0–424.0)*	142	373 (320.0–427.0)*	141	373.6 (327.0–417.0)*	0.00†	0.98†
Hemoglobin	282	99 (90–104)*	142	96.1 (91–104)*	140	96.7 (89–104)*	0.40†	0.69†
Participants' age	140	28.1 (25.0–30.0)*	141	29.1 (25.0–31.0)*	281	28.6 (25.0–30.0)*	1.08†	0.30†
Primary caregiver
Mother	269	95.1	136	95.8	133	94.3	–	0.59‡
Grandmother	11	3.9	4	2.8	7	5
Other	3	1.1	2	1.4	1	0.7
Mother's education level
Primary school	14	5	3	2.1	11	7.8	0.07	0.95
Junior high school	217	76.7	110	77.5	107	75.9
Senior high school	36	12.7	21	14.8	15	10.6
College and above	16	5.7	8	5.6	8	5.7
In your mind, is anemia common for infant and young child
Yes	87	30.7	47	33.1	40	28.4	0.79	0.68
No	141	49.8	69	48.6	72	51.1
Do not know	55	19.4	26	18.3	29	20.6
In your mind, how harmful is the impact of anemia on health
No problem	27	9.5	11	7.8	16	11.4	–0.25	0.80
A little harmful	43	15.2	22	15.5	21	14.9
Harmful	142	50.2	76	53.5	66	46.8
Serious	37	13.1	18	12.7	19	13.5
Very serious	8	2.8	3	2.1	5	3.6
Do not know	26	9.2	12	8.5	14	9.9
Received any anemia information
Yes	35	12.4	21	14.8	14	9.9	3.15	0.21
No	236	83.4	113	79.6	123	87.2
Do not know	12	4.2	8	5.6	4	2.8
Received anemia information for question 1
Yes	143	50.5	73	51.4	70	49.7	0.09	0.77
No	140	49.5	69	48.6	71	50.4
Received anemia information for question 2
Yes	109	38.5	58	40.9	51	36.2	0.65	0.42
No	174	61.5	84	59.2	90	63.8

*Continuous variables were expressed as median and quartiles (Q25–Q75).

^†Median (Q25–Q75), Mann–Whitney U/Wilcoxon W test was used to compare differences between group 1 and group 2.

^‡Fisher exact test was used to compare differences between group 1 and group 2.