Effects of Nutrition Education on Improving Knowledge and Practice of Complementary Feeding of Mothers with 6- to 23-Month-Old Children in Daycare Centers in Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia: An Institution-Based Randomized Control Trial

Table 1

Sociodemographic and economic characteristics of mothers with children (6–20 months old) in the daycare center at Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia, 2018 G.C . (n₁ = n₂ = 100).

Variable	Allocation group		X^2 (df), value
	IG, n (%)	CG, n (%)
Respondent age, in years
18–24	42 (42)	32 (32)	8.970 (2), 0.011
25–35	50 (50)	62 (62)
>35	8 (8)	6 (6)
Religion
Protestant	52 (52)	44 (44)	6.186 (3), 0.103
Orthodox	31 (31)	32 (32)
Muslim	10 (10)	21 (21)
Catholic	7 (7)	3 (3)
Marital status
Married	94 (94)	90 (90)	1.230 (2), 0.541
Divorced	3 (3)	4 (4)
Widowed	3 (3)	6 (6)
Occupation
Employed	38 (38)	24 (24)	26.40 (4),<0.001
Merchant	33 (33)	16 (16)
Student	2 (2)	19 (19)
Housewife	27 (27)	41 (41)
Head of the household			—
Male-headed	27 (37.0)	46 (63.0)	7.802 (2), 0.020
Female-headed	21 (58.3)	15 (41.7)
Jointly	52 (57.1)	39 (42.9)
Number of children <5 year
≤2 children	92 (92.0)	96 (96.0)	4.308 (1), 0.038
>2 children	8 (8.0)	4 (4.0)
Average monthly of income (ETB)
≤5000	53 (53.0)	69 (69.0)	12.659 (1),<0.001
>5000	47 (47.0)	31 (31.0)
Age of the child in completed months
≤12 months	34 (34.0)	30 (30.0)	4.367 (1), 0.037
12–20 months	66 (66.0)	70 (70.0)
Sex of the child
Female	54 (54.0)	59 (59.0)	0.020 (1), 0.887
Male	46 (46.0)	41 (41.0)

IG = intervention group; CG = control group.