Table 2. Summary statistics for household food and water insecurity, socio-economic status, and women’s psychological distress: Baseline and endline measures in intervention and control villages in South Wello, Ethiopia (n = 123).

	Control group (n = 49)		Intervention group (n = 74)
	mean (SD)	mean (SD)	mean (SD)	mean (SD)
	at baseline	at endline	at baseline	at endline
Water insecurity	2.20 (2.08)	2.31 (2.20)	3.05 (3.79)	1.16 (1.67) **
Food insecurity	4.67 (5.39)	4.31 (5.83)	5.57 (5.54)	3.14 (3.81) **
Psychological distress	7.14 (4.58)	4.86 (4.27)**	6.01 (4.47)	3.72 (3.78) **
Socio-economic status	-0.11 (1.66)	-0.24 (1.63)	0.12 (1.72)	0.31 (1.65)
Harvest quality	0.11 (0.32)	0.93 (0.25)**	0.13 (0.34)	0.77 (0.42) **

Notes:

Household water insecurity is measured on a 21-point scale based on formative work in South Gondar, Ethiopia [16]

Food insecurity is measured by the USDA Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (range 0–27) [38]

Psychological distress is measured on a 20-point scale (SRQ-20) [29]

Socio-economic status (SES) score is derived from principal components analysis of land ownership (hectares), livestock (numbers of sheep, goats, oxen, cows, calves, donkeys, horses, mules, camels), and any off-farm work, according to the procedure proposed by Filmer & Pritchett (2001) [37].

Harvest quality is a binary variable, for each household denoting 0 if the past year’s harvest was said to be insufficient, and 1 if the past year’s harvest was said to be sufficient.

** indicates difference between baseline and endline is significant at p <0.01 (paired t-test)