Research Article
A Nutrition Education Intervention to Combat Undernutrition: Experience from a Developing Country
Table 2
Change in dietary intake of children aged from 6 months to 8 years, Tando Jam (n 323).
| Number of servings | Preintervention mean (SD) | Postintervention mean (SD) | value |
| Number of meals | 5.42 (1.20) | 6.01 (1.19) | 0.000 | High starch foods | 5.87 (1.99) | 6.85 (2.38) | 0.000 | Animal protein |
0.92 (1.14) | 1.10 (1.47) | 0.158 | Plant protein | 0.77 (1.01) | 0.71 (1.03) | 0.510 | Dairy foods | 1.66 (1.93) | 1.69 (1.76) | 0.417 | Vegetables | 0.42 (0.70) | 0.66 (0.83) | 0.000 | Fruits | 0.51 (0.90) | 0.78 (0.94) | 0.000 | Tea | 1.48 (0.64) | 1.51 (0.63) | 0.433 | Miscellaneous | 1.26 (1.31) | 1.33 (1.33) | 0.384 |
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