Table 2. Characteristics of survey respondents residing in rural areas.

	Baseline			End point
	Intervention (n = 432)	Control (n = 406)	p-value	Intervention (n = 364)	Control (n = 334)	p-value
Geographic region, %
Central or eastern	63.6	63.6		75.0	72.4
Nairobi	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0
Nyanza	10.1	0.0	0.345	9.8	0.0	0.175
Rift Valley	0.0	10.3		0.0	11.4
Western	26.4	26.1		15.3	16.2
Residence location, %
Rural	93.6	99.4		69.3	99.5	0.000**
Urbana 6.4	0.6	0.014*	30.7	0.5	0.000**
Age, years	%
18–24	18.7	20.0		22.4	14.3
25–29	12.7	8.9		14.2	16.0
30–34	10.9	12.3		14.0	10.8
35–39	11.2	13.3	0.647	9.3	7.6	0.128
40–44	11.2	8.7		11.6	9.7
45–49	6.6	6.9		7.0	8.8
≥ 50	28.8	30.0		21.6	32.8
Gender, %
Male	48.7	46.0	0.269	50.6	55.7	0.448
Female	51.3	54.0	0.269	49.4	44.3	0.448
Education, %
Nursery/kindergarten	1.8	2.0		3.5	2.7
Primary	47.4	48.7		37.1	48.2
Post-primary, vocational	4.1	3.5	0.834	4.3	5.3	0.310
Secondary, A-level	36.4	32.2	0.834	39.3	30.1
College (mid-level)	6.0	6.5		11.8	6.4
University	1.7	1.7		1.4	1.2
No school attended	2.5	4.8		2.5	6.0
Wealth quintile, shillings/month, %
≤ 653	34.3	33.5		25.6	37.9
654–2 158	17.2	13.6		22.4	20.6
2 159–2 633	25.8	51.6	0.000**	15.4	38.8	0.000**
2 634–3 631	21.2	0.5	0.000**	32.4	1.0
≥ 3 632	1.5	0.8		4.2	1.7
Lifestyle characteristics, %
Non-smoker	87.8	91.5	0.392	92.0	86.6	0.104
Does not drink alcohol	78.0	82.8	0.177	80.2	87.4	0.023*
Consumes ≥ 1 fruit serving/day	52.0	26.3	0.001**	60.8	36.0	0.010*
Consumes ≥ 1 vegetable serving/day	68.1	56.5	0.446	84.9	54.1	0.016*

Table 3. Pearson’s correlation analysis for some parameters (r)