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 2
Knowledge of mothers on complementary feeding for children (6–20 months old) in daycare institutions at Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia, 2018.
Knowledge variables
Study period
Study group
value
IG, n (%)
CG, n (%)
Know the time to start complementary food
Baseline
94 (94)
91 (91)
Endline
100 (100)
95 (95)
0.812
Know the nutritive benefit of complementary food
Baseline
74 (74)
69 (69)
0.138
Endline
100 (100)
66 (66)
<0.001
Know what should be used in the preparation of complementary foods
Baseline
43 (43)
55 (55)
0.205
Endline
99 (99)
59 (59)
<0.001
Know the amount of complementary food to feed the child
Baseline
34 (34)
26 (26)
0.171
Endline
92 (99)
34 (34)
<0.001
Know the frequency of food to feed the child
Baseline
34 (34)
31 (31)
0.221
Endline
98 (98)
40 (40)
<0.001
Type of complementary food
Baseline
55 (55)
55 (55)
0.221
Endline
95 (95)
61 (61)
<0.001
Thickness/consistency of complementary foods
Baseline
38 (38)
41 (41)
0.053
Endline
87 (87)
55 (55)
<0.001
Aggregate complementary feeding knowledge¶
Good
Baseline
59 (59)
54 (54)
=0.954
Endline
96 (96)
54 (54)
<0.01)
IG = intervention group; CG = control group, the difference is significant at a probability value of 5%, ¶ = the remaining proportion belongs to poor complementary feeding knowledge, $ = value for the chi-squared test.
