Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants

	Control	Intervention t0	Intervention t0 (who are followed up)
	n/N (%)	n/N (%)	n/N (%)
N	369 (100)	233 (100)	97 (100)
Age: mean (SD)	35 (10.5)	38 (11.8)	39 (10.8)
Sex: female	282/369 (76.4)	182/233 (78.1)	74/97 (76.3)
Education
No formal education	51/369 (13.8)	49/233 (21.0)	19/97 (19.6)
Primary	133/369 (36.0)	76/233 (32.6)	29/97 (29.9)
Secondary	102/369 (27.6)	73/233 (31.3)	31/97 (32.0)
Higher	76/369 (20.6)	32/233 (13.7)	17/97 (17.5)
Other	7/369 (1.9)	3/233 (1.3)	1/97 (1.0)
Marital status
Married	212/369 (57.5)	127/232 (54.7)	54/96 (56.3)
Relationship, not married	117/369 (31.7)	63/232 (27.2)	26/96 (27.1)
Not in a relationship	40/369 (10.8)	42/232 (18.1)	16/96 (16.7)
Religion
Evangelical	110/369 (29.8)	74/233 (31.8)	34/97 (35.1)
Mainstream Christian	21/369 (5.7)	12/233 (5.2)	3/97 (3.1)
African Healing Churches	196/369 (53.1)	125/233 (53.7)	52/97 (53.6)
Other	5/369 (1.4)	2/233 (0.9)	0
None	37/369 (10.0)	20/233 (8.6)	8/97 (8.3)
Wealth index
Poorest	90/369 (24.4)	73/233 (31.3)	28/97 (28.9)
Poor	59/369 (16.0)	24/233 (10.3)	10/97 (10.3)
Middle	73/369 (19.8)	32/233 (13.7)	15/97 (15.5)
Rich	78/369 (21.1)	64/233 (27.5)	33/97 (34.0)
Richest	69/369 (18.7)	40/233 (17.2)	11/97 (11.3)
Missed a meal
Never	272/369 (73.7)	147/232 (63.4)	60/96 (62.5)
Sometimes	68/369 (18.4)	50/232 (21.6)	24/96 (25.0)
Always or often	29/369 (7.9)	35/232 (15.1)	12/96 (12.5)
Travel time to facility
Mean (SD)	57 (53.8)	59 (54.9)
<60	229/368 (62.2)	132/232 (56.9)
>60	139/368 (37.8)	100/232 (43.1)
Time since HIV positive, years
Mean (SD)	2.5 (3.1)	3.5 (3.6)
Time on ART, months
Mean (SD)	5.4 (3.1)	7.0 (3.4)

SD, standard deviation.