Table 1.
Nutritional status and psychosocial factors of extremely poor and reference children
| Variables | Extreme poverty | Reference | χ2 | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 819) | (n = 819) | |||
| Nutritional status | ||||
| Moderately stunted | 213 (26.0%) | – | ||
| Severely stunted | 112 (13.7%) | – | ||
| Moderately wasted | 19 (3.3%) | – | ||
| Severely wasted | 8 (1.0%) | – | ||
| Moderately underweight | 99 (12.1%) | – | ||
| Severely underweight | 36 (4.4%) | – | ||
| Psychosocial factors | ||||
| Child-child interaction (No) | 413 (50.4%) | 225 (27.5%) | 90.7 | < 0.001 |
| Mother-child interaction (No) | 525 (64.1%) | 307 (37.5%) | 116.1 | < 0.001 |
| Availability of play materials (No) | 652 (79.6%) | 344 (42.0%) | 243.0 | < 0.001 |
| Availability of playground (No) | 554 (67.6%) | 272 (33.2%) | 194.2 | < 0.001 |
| Play time (No) | 193 (23.6%) | 135 (16.5%) | 12.8 | < 0.001 |
| Sex-child (girls) | 420 (51.3%) | 414 (50.5%) | 0.6 | = 0.459 |
| Age-child [mean(SD)] | 30.40 (15.83) | 30.76 (15.83) | 0.5 | = 0.641 |
Note. χ2 = Chi-square test statistic, P-value = level of significance. Child-child interaction refers to the frequency of a child’s interaction with other children. For the psychosocial factors, we obtained binary (Yes or No) responses. P-value of 0.000 was reported as < 0.001. For the children’s age differences, we used t-test statistic. Children’s age ranged from 4.80 to 60.16 months