Table 1: Socioeconomic and anthropometric characteristics of the two groups of children analyzed.
| CREN (n=37) | Daycare facility (n=37) | p-valuea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Standard deviation | Mean | Standard deviation | ||
| Age (months) | 42.0 | 11.0 | 44.9 | 9.4 | 0.35 |
| H/A index (Z-score) | -2.4 | 0.3 | -0.3 | 0.5 | <0.01 |
| n | % | n | % | p-valueb | |
| Social Class | |||||
| C1-C2 | 14 | 37.8 | 18 | 48.6 | 0.34 |
| D-E | 23 | 62.2 | 19 | 51.4 | |
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 18 | 48.6 | 18 | 48.6 | 0.99 |
| Male | 19 | 51.4 | 19 | 51.4 | |
CREN: Nutrition Education and Recovery Center; H/A: height-to-age; aobtained using the Student’s t test for independente samples; bobtained using the chi-squared test.