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Table 1 Baseline demographic, health, household, and wealth characteristics of study participants from San Marcos and Cajabamba, Andean Peru, 2016

From: Effectiveness of a home-environmental intervention package and an early child development intervention on child health and development in high-altitude rural communities in the Peruvian Andes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

  

IHIP + ECD

 

IHIP

 

ECD

 

Control

 

n

Mean (SD) or % (n)

n

Mean (SD) or % (n)

n

Mean (SD) or % (n)

n

Mean (SD) or % (n)

Demographic characteristics

78

 

79

 

79

 

81

 

 Child sex (female)

 

43.6 (34)

 

50.6 (40)

 

53.2 (42)

 

55.6 (45)

 Child age (years)a

 

1.5 (0.5)

 

1.5 (0.5)

 

1.7 (0.5)

 

1.7 (0.5)

 Child < 1 yeara

 

20.5 (16)

 

20.3 (16)

 

10.1 (8)

 

9.9 (8)

 Age of caretaker (years)

 

27.3 (7.1)

 

28.4 (7.4)

 

27.2 (6.6)

 

28.0 (6.9)

Maternal education

78

 

79

 

79

 

81

 

 Years of schoolingb

 

6.1 (3.5)

 

6.1 (3.3)

 

6.9 (3.5)

 

5.6 (3.2)

Children’s health outcomes

78

 

79

 

79

 

81

 

 Diarrhoea, two-week prevalence

 

18.4 (14)

 

22.8 (18)

 

19.0 (15)

 

26.3 (21)

 Fever, two-week prevalence

 

21.8 (17)

 

21.5 (17)

 

25.3 (20)

 

23.5 (19)

 Cough, two-week prevalence

 

35.1 (27)

 

31.7 (25)

 

39.2 (31)

 

29.1 (23)

Anthropometricsc

78

 

79

 

79

 

81

 

 Height-for-age, Z-scores

64

− 1.3 (1.1)

50

− 1.0 (0.9)

64

− 1.5 (1.1)

61

− 1.4 (0.8)

 Weight-for-age, Z-scores

64

− 0.4 (1.0)

51

− 0.1 (0.8)

65

− 0.6 (0.9)

61

− 0.5 (0.9)

Household characteristics

78

 

79

 

79

 

81

 

 Adobe wall type

 

89.7 (70)

 

92.4 (73)

 

93.7 (74)

 

100 (81)

 Earthen floor type

 

83.3 (65)

 

89.9 (71)

 

94.9 (75)

 

93.8 (76)

 Roof tile type

 

82.1 (64)

 

87.3 (69)

 

86.1 (68)

 

95.1 (77)

Wealth classification

78

 

79

 

79

 

81

 

1. Quintile (lowest)

 

28.2 (22)

 

24.1 (19)

 

17.7 (14)

 

14.8 (12)

2. Quintile

 

21.8 (17)

 

17.7 (14)

 

20.3 (16)

 

18.5 (15)

3. Quintile

 

14.1 (11)

 

21.5 (17)

 

26.6 (21)

 

19.8 (16)

4. Quintile

 

15.4 (12)

 

13.9 (11)

 

19.0 (15)

 

27.2 (22)

5. Quintile (highest)

 

20.5 (16)

 

22.8 (18)

 

16.5 (13)

 

19.8 (16)

  1. ECD Early child development, IHIP Integrated Home-environmental Intervention Package, SD Standard deviation
  2. aAge calculated for the start of follow-up (April 1, 2016)
  3. bHigher education included the following categories: higher (non-university) education not completed: 12.5 years; higher (non-university) education completed: 14 years; university education not completed: 13.5 years; and university education completed: 16 years
  4. cAs estimated on December 15, 2015 (± 31 days). If several estimates within the range were available, the one closest to the date was selected