Research Article
A Nutrition Education Intervention to Combat Undernutrition: Experience from a Developing Country
Table 3
Change in dietary intake of children aged 6 months to 8 years Quetta (n 263).
| Number of servings | Preintervention mean (SD) | Postintervention mean (SD) | value |
| Number of meals | 6.71 (1.72) | 6.94 (1.92) | 0.025 | High starch | 3.46 (1.79) | 3.58 (1.62) | 0.288 | Animal protein | 0.62 (0.839) | 0.70 (0.95) | 0.277 | Plant protein | 1.52 (1.23) | 1.26 (1.23) | 0.005 | Dairy foods | 0.78 (1.40) | 0.93 (1.67) | 0.041 | Vegetables | 0.36 (0.50) | 0.45 (0.62) | 0.026 | Fruits | 0.79 (0.80) | 0.89 (0.95) | 0.283 | Tea | 1.97 (1.16) | 2.01 (1.17) | 0.330 | Miscellaneous | 0.38 (0.75) | 0.33 (0.77) | 0.317 |
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