Table 2.
Characteristics of children screened into prevention and treatment group
| Prevention: Not wasted | Treatment: Wasted | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | Severe | ||
| Screened N | 6,849 | 715 | 195 |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Female | 3,372 (49.2) | 315 (44.1) | 84 (43.1) |
| Age (months) | |||
| 0 to 5 | 1,665 (24.3) | 147 (20.6) | 46 (23.6) |
| 6 to 11 | 1,365 (19.9) | 149 (20.8) | 33 (16.9) |
| 12 to 23 | 2,245 (32.8) | 282 (39.4) | 74 (37.9) |
| 24 to 36 | 1,574 (23.0) | 137 (19.2) | 42 (21.5) |
| Experiencing illness (at admission) | 527 (7.7) | 134 (18.7) | 49 (25.1) |
| Diarrhoea | 138 (2.0) | 41 (5.7) | 13 (6.7) |
| Fever | 247 (3.6) | 64 (9.0) | 22 (11.3) |
| Cough | 100 (1.5) | 18 (2.5) | 7 (3.6) |
| Lives in joint family | 3,400 (49.6) | 346 (48.4) | 86 (44.1) |
| Mother not working | 6,484 (94.7) | 679 (95.0) | 182 (93.3) |
| Household owns home | 3,732 (54.5) | 372 (52.0) | 96 (49.2) |
| Birth order: First child | 2,877 (43.9) | 261 (38.2) | 63 (34.8) |
| Progress out of poverty index poverty likelihoods below $2.16/day/PPP line | |||
| % mean likelihood | 74.6 | 78.2 | 79.4 |
Note. For birth order, total sample falls to 7,412; for the Progress out of Poverty index, the sample falls to 7,735.