Research Article
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,
| 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,
| 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,
| 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,
| Food secure | 131 | 24.16 | 4.70 | 23.35 | 24.98 | Total | 334 | 23.51 | 4.39 | 23.04 | 23.98 |
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