Table 4. Effect of the intervention on AM treatment coverage assessed by cross-sectional study.
| Baseline | Endline | Δa (pp) | 95% CI | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | Intervention | Comparison | Intervention | ||||
| Children with AM at the time of the survey | n = 141 | n = 191 | n = 149 | n = 147 | |||
| Treatment coverage (primary outcome)b | 32 (23%) | 54 (28%) | 28 (19%) | 36 (24%) | 8.0 | 0.09–16 | 0.047* |
| Received an MAM and/or SAM treatment product in the past month | 33 (23%) | 57 (30%) | 32 (21%) | 40 (27%) | 7.4 | −0.57 to 15 | 0.069 |
| Children with MAM at the time of the survey | n = 117 | n = 160 | n = 124 | n = 124 | |||
| Treatment coverageb | 27 (23%) | 47 (29%) | 25 (20%) | 33 (27%) | 8.6 | 0.17–17 | 0.045 |
| Received an MAM treatment product | 18 (15%) | 28 (18%) | 19 (15%) | 29 (23%) | 9.0 | 0.78–17 | 0.032 |
| Received an SAM treatment product | 12 (10%) | 25 (16%) | 7 (5.7%) | 6 (4.8%) | 0.5 | −4.0 to 5.0 | 0.83 |
| Children with SAM at the time of the survey | n = 24 | n = 31 | n = 25 | n = 23 | |||
| Treatment coverageb | 5 (21%) | 7 (23%) | 3 (12%) | 3 (13%) | -0.11 | −17 to 17 | 0.99 |
| Received MAM and/or SAM treatment product | 6 (25%) | 10 (32%) | 7 (28%) | 7 (30%) | 1.8 | −22 to 26 | 0.88 |
Data are n (%) or mean ± SD.
*Not statistically significant when considering the critical P value calculated using the Benjamini–Hochberg method to account for multiple testing of primary outcomes (Pcritical = 0.016). ICCs for primary outcomes are presented in S1 Table.
aDifference between intervention and comparison group expressed in pp analyzed using a mixed-effect linear probability model with robust estimation of standard errors, with health center as random effect and child sex, child age, whether the child was a first live birth, intervention, and the cluster means of the outcome at baseline as fixed effects.
bTreatment coverage is defined by children with MAM receiving an MAM treatment product or an SAM treatment product and children with SAM receiving an SAM treatment product in the past month.
Abbreviations: AM, acute malnutrition; ICC, intracluster correlation coefficient; MAM, moderate AM; pp, percentage points; SAM, severe AM.