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 4

Dietary diversity score status of children (6–23 months old) in daycare institutions at Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia, 2018.

Dietary diversity score	Study period	Intervention group	Control group	value
Good, (%)	Pretest	26	23	0.519
	Posttest	67	33	0.034
Mean (SD)	Pretest	2.55 (1.60)	2.60 (1.34)	0.811
	Posttest	4.03 (1.36)	3.07 (1.03)	<0.01

SD = standard deviation; the value is from the chi-squared test for % of good dietary diversity and independent t test for mean dietary diversity score.