Seasonality and determinants of child growth velocity and growth deficit in rural southwest Ethiopia

BMC Pediatrics

Table 3 Linear growth deficit in the post-and pre-harvesting seasons over a 2-year follow-up period in Southwest Ethiopia, 2014–15

	Model 1 post-harvest		Model 2 pre-harvest
	Estimate (95% CI)	SE	Estimate (95% CI)	SE
Fixed effects
Intercept	66.59 (65.51, 67.68)**	0.55	67.79 (66.49, 69.09)**	0.66
Seasons of child birth
Autumn (ref)
Spring	0.35 (−0.62, 1.32)	0.50	0.31 (− 0.73, 1.35)	0.53
Summer	−0.99 (−1.93, −.04)*	0.48	−1.06 (−2.07, −.04)*	0.52
Winter	−0.35 (− 1.42, 0.71)	0.54	− 0.25 (− 1.39, 0.89)	0.58
Age of the child (months)	0.60 (0.58, 0.62)**	0.01	0.58 (0.56, 0.60)**	0.01
Sex of the child
Female (ref)
Male	0.41 (−0.25, 1.07)	0.34	0.67 (− 0.07, 1.40)	0.38
Any illness in the past 2 weeks
Yes (ref)
No	0.54 (0.03, 1.06)*	0.26	0.23 (−0.39, 0.86)	0.32
Child Dietary Diversity
High (ref)
Medium	−0.39 (−0.94, 0.15)	0.28	−0.31 (− 0.93, 0.31)	0.32
Low	−1.21 (−1.80, −0.61)**	0.31	−1.44 (−2.12, −0.76)**	0.35
Household food insecurity
Food secure (ref)
Moderately food insecure	0.40 (− 0.17, 0.96)	0.29	−0.17 (− 0.84, 0.50)	0.34
Severely food insecure	0.68 (0.06, 1.30)*	0.32	−0.38 (−1.11, 0.36)	0.38
Random-effects
Variance of random intercept	4.23 (3.94, 4.53)	0.15	4.41 (4.10, 4.75)	0.17
Variance of measurement errors (residuals)	2.73 (2.57, 2.90)	0.09	3.443 (3.26, 3.64)	0.10

*Significant at p < 0.05, **Significant at p < 0.001, ref Reference category, CI confidence interval

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