TABLE 3.

Differences in child‐development risk factors in the cohort comparing pre‐ and mid‐COVID time points (n = 517)

Outcome	Mean ± SD		Adjusted difference
	Pre‐COVID	Mid‐COVID
CES‐D score	13.4 ± 8.7	12.8 ± 9.2	−0.55 (−1.30 to 0.21)
FCI play activities	2.5 ± 1.51	3.8 ± 1.6	1.25 (1.08 to 1.42)
FCI play materials	1.2 ± 1.1	2.8 ± 1.2	1.66 (1.52 to 1.79)
Freedom of movement score	3.5 ± 1.6	3.1 ± 1.8	−0.41 (−0.58 to −0.25)

FCI: Family Care Indicators, the play activities subscale is a sum score of the number of play activities that the caregiver participated in with the child in the previous 3 days (0–6); the play materials subscale is the number of different types of play materials the child has played with in the past 30 days (0–6); CES‐D: Center for Epidemiologic Studies 20 question Depression questionnaire (0–60), and higher scores indicate more depressive symptoms experienced; Freedom of movement score is a sum score with one point for attending each of the following four places in the last 6 months, and an additional point if that location was attended alone: the market, medical facility, outside the village, paternal home or the home of a friend or a relative (0–8); Adjusted differences are adjusted for village, child age category, maternal education, income, antenatal care, control over assets, household size, child sex, housing materials.