Does Household Food Insecurity Affect the Nutritional Status of Preschool Children Aged 6–36 Months?

Table 5

Nutritional status indices and household food security as measured by food consumption score (FCS).

Anthropometric measurement	N	Mean	Std. deviation	95% Confidence interval for mean		Test statistic
				Lower bound	Upper bound
WHZ
Food in-secure	203	−0.86	1.09	−1.008	−0.70	F(1, 332) = 0.005,; 𝑃=0.9
Food secure	129	−0.85	1.04	−1.03	−0.67
Total	332	−0.85	1.07	−0.97	−0.74
HAZ
Food in-secure	69	−1.68	1.64	−1.71	−1.30	F(1, 334) = 4.1,; 𝑃=0.04
Food secure	266	−1.29	1.41	−1.40	−0.91
Total	335	−1.37	1.46	−1.53	−1.21
WAZ
Food insecure	203	−1.39	1.21	−1.56	−1.23	F(1, 332) = 0.8,; 𝑃=0.4
Food secure	130	−1.27	1.10	−1.46	−1.08
Total	333	−1.35	1.17	−1.47	−1.22
BMI of adults (women)
Food in-secure	203	23.09	4.14	22.51	23.66	F(1, 333) = 4.9,; 𝑃=0.028
Food secure	131	24.16	4.70	23.35	24.98
Total	334	23.51	4.39	23.04	23.98