Table 2. Baseline characteristics of children enrollment in PROMOTE study.
| Uganda | Malawi | Zimbabwe | South Africa | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUJHU-Kampala (N = 310) |
Blantyre (N = 317) |
Lilongwe (N = 289) |
Harare (N = 91) | Seke North (N = 169) |
St. Mary’s (N = 162) |
PHRU-Soweto (N = 244) |
uMlazi-Durban (N = 202) |
Total (N = 1784) |
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| First born children in PROMISE | |||||||||
| Gender, n (%) (N = 1781) | |||||||||
| Male | 161 (52.1%) | 164 (51.7%) | 156 (54.0%) | 41 (45.1%) | 88 (52.1%) | 84 (51.9%) | 123 (50.6%) | 98 (48.8%) | 915 (51.4%) |
| Female | 148 (47.9%) | 153 (48.3%) | 133 (46.0%) | 50 (54.9%) | 81 (47.9%) | 78 (48.1%) | 120 (49.4%) | 103 (51.2%) | 866 (48.6%) |
| Children age–years, Mean (SD)* |
3.6 (1.0) | 3.3 (1.0) | 3.7 (0.9) | 3.6 (1.1) | 3.6 (0.9) | 3.4 (1.1) | 3.5 (1.0) | 3.7 (1.0) | 3.5 (1.0) |
| Anthropometrics | |||||||||
| Weight-for-age (N = 1775) | |||||||||
| Mean z-score | -0.50 | -0.91 | -0.71 | -0.71 | -0.43 | -0.51 | -0.25 | -0.08 | -0.53 |
| SD* for z-score | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.97 | 0.88 | 0.87 | 0.94 | 1.09 | 0.96 | 0.97 |
| Proportion below 3 SD* | 1 (0.3%) | 6 (1.9%) | 3 (1.0%) | 1 (1.1%) | 1 (0.6%) | 0 | 1 (0.4%) | 0 | 13 (0.7%) |
| Proportion below 2 SD* | 10 (3.2%) | 30 (9.5%) | 28 (9.8%) | 6 (6.6%) | 3 (1.8%) | 9 (5.6%) | 11 (4.5%) | 5 (2.5%) | 102 (5.7%) |
| Length/height-for-age (N = 1769) | |||||||||
| Mean z-score | -1.16 | -2.00 | -1.72 | -0.79 | -1.29 | -1.17 | -0.69 | -0.84 | -1.29 |
| SD* for z-score | 0.98 | 1.18 | 1.01 | 1.00 | 1.17 | 0.96 | 1.34 | 1.12 | 1.20 |
| Proportion below 3 SD* | 7 (2.3%) | 54 (17.4%) | 26 (9.0%) | 1 (1.1%) | 12 (7.1%) | 6 (3.7%) | 7 (2.9%) | 5 (2.5%) | 118 (6.7%) |
| Proportion below 2 SD* | 60 (19.5%) | 137 (44.2%) | 98 (33.9%) | 12 (13.2%) | 43 (25.4%) | 30 (18.5%) | 33 (13.8%) | 29 (14.4%) | 442 (25.0%) |
*SD: Standard deviation