Table 1.
Description of study participants by nutritional status, KA-HDSS, Tigray, northern Ethiopia (n = 2, 260)
| Independent variables | Total counts (Column %) |
Maternal nutritional status (Count, and row %) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Properly nourished | Undernourished | |||
| Residence | Rural | 2121 (93.8) | 1301 (61.3) | 820 (38.7) |
| Semi-urban | 139 (6.2) | 99 (71.2) | 40 (28.8) | |
| Age in years | Median (IQR*) | 27 (23–30) | 27 (22–31) | 28 (23–30) |
| Age of child in months | Mean (±SD*) | 10.5 (±6.4) | 10.4 (±6.5) | 10.8 (±6.3) |
| Education | No formal education | 1372 (62.9) | 865 (63.1) | 507 (36.9) |
| Primary | 592 (27.2) | 361 (61.0) | 231 (39.0) | |
| Secondary and above | 215 (9.9) | 125 (58.1) | 90 (41.9) | |
| Occupation | Housewife/Farmer | 1914 (88.0) | 1192 (62.3) | 722 (37.7) |
| Government employee and others | 199 (9.1) | 121 (60.8) | 78 (39.2) | |
| Daily laborer/ Unemployed | 62 (2.9) | 36 (58.1) | 26 (41.9) | |
| Asset-based wealth status | Poor | 898 (39.7) | 573 (63.8) | 325 (36.2) |
| Not poor | 1362 (60.3) | 827 (60.7) | 535 (39.3) | |
| Household history of adult death | No history adult death | 2134 (94.4) | 1328 (62.2) | 806 (37.8) |
| Death from chronic diseases | 62 (2.7) | 31 (50.0) | 31 (50.0) | |
| Death from all other causes | 64 (2.8) | 41 (64.1) | 23 (35.9) | |
| Maternal health seeking | Poor | 1009 (48.8) | 601 (59.6) | 408 (40.4) |
| Good | 1059 (51.2) | 695 (65.6) | 364 (34.4) | |
| HAEFI* | Poor | 1006 (45.4) | 571 (56.8) | 435 (43.2) |
| Medium | 431 (19.5) | 288 (66.8) | 143 (33.2) | |
| High | 778 (35.1) | 514 (66.1) | 264 (33.9) | |
| Morbidity in the past 2 weeks | No | 2180 (96.5) | 1363 (62.5) | 817 (37.5) |
| Yes | 79 (3.5) | 36 (45.6) | 43 (54.4) | |
| Household size | Mean and SD | 6.21 (2.04) | 6.25 (2.05) | 6.15 (2.03) |
| Altitude (in meter) | Median and IQR | 2110 (2041 – 2300) | 2102.5 (2038–2270) | 2138 (2050–2321) |
| Crop diversity | No | 1039 (46.0) | 590 (62.5) | 449 (37.5) |
| Yes | 1221 (54.0) | 810 (45.6) | 411 (54.4) | |
*HAEFI housing and environmental factors index, IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation