Table 3.
Sample distribution (%) by the change in nutrition knowledge score and socioeconomic factors three months and nine months after education.
| Variables | After 3 Months | After 9 Months | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Increase | Any Increase | Increase ≥4 Points | No Increase | Any Increase | Increase ≥4 Points | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total | Edu | Con | p-Value | Total | Edu | Con | p-Value | Total | Edu | Con | p-Value | Total | Edu | Con | p-Value | Total | Edu | Con | p-Value | Total | Edu | Con | p-Value | |
| Sample size | 166 | 80 | 86 | 296 | 239 | 57 | 119 | 109 | 10 | 156 | 93 | 63 | 306 | 226 | 80 | 134 | 98 | 36 | ||||||
| Sample percentage |
100.0 | 48.2 | 51.8 | 100.0 | 80.7 | 19.3 | 100.0 | 91.6 | 8.4 | 100.0 | 59.6 | 40.4 | 100.0 | 73.9 | 26.1 | 100.0 | 73.1 | 26.9 | ||||||
| Gender | 0.42 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.36 | 0.41 | 0.25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Girls | 53.6 | 57.5 | 50.0 | 53.0 | 55.2 | 43.9 | 55.5 | 57.8 | 30.0 | 51.3 | 54.8 | 46.0 | 54.6 | 56.2 | 50.0 | 48.5 | 52.0 | 38.9 | ||||||
| Boys | 46.4 | 42.5 | 50.0 | 47.0 | 44.8 | 56.1 | 44.5 | 42.2 | 70.0 | 48.7 | 45.2 | 54.0 | 45.4 | 43.8 | 50.0 | 51.5 | 48.0 | 61.1 | ||||||
| Residence | <0.01 | 0.56 | 0.49 | <0.001 | 0.95 | <0.05 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Urban | 70.5 | 82.5 | 59.3 | 62.2 | 63.2 | 57.9 | 55.5 | 56.9 | 40.0 | 64.1 | 75.3 | 47.6 | 65.4 | 65.0 | 66.3 | 56.7 | 50.0 | 75.0 | ||||||
| Rural | 29.5 | 17.5 | 40.7 | 37.8 | 36.8 | 42.1 | 44.5 | 43.1 | 60.0 | 35.9 | 24.7 | 52.4 | 34.6 | 35.0 | 33.8 | 43.3 | 50.0 | 25.0 | ||||||
| FAS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Low | 24.1 | 17.5 | 30.2 | 22.0 | 23.4 | 16.1 | 24.4 | 25.7 | 10.0 | 18.1 | 15.2 | 22.2 | 24.1 | 22.3 | 29.1 | 27.1 | 23.5 | 37.1 | ||||||
| Higher | 75.9 | 82.5 | 69.8 | 0.08 | 78.0 | 76.6 | 83.9 | 0.31 | 75.6 | 74.3 | 90.0 | 0.47 | 81.9 | 84.8 | 77.8 | 0.37 | 75.9 | 77.7 | 70.9 | 0.29 | 72.9 | 76.5 | 62.9 | 0.18 |
Nutrition knowledge score (range: 0–18). FAS indicates Family Affluence Scale (low: 0–4 points, higher: 5–7 points). Edu indicates—educated group, Con—control group. p-value—significance level of chi-squared test with Yates’ correction.