Table 1 Nutritional status and psychosocial factors of extremely poor and reference children
Variables | Extreme poverty | Reference | χ2 | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 819) | (n = 819) |  |  | |
Nutritional status | ||||
 Moderately stunted | 213 (26.0%) | – |  |  |
 Severely stunted | 112 (13.7%) | – |  |  |
 Moderately wasted | 19 (3.3%) | – |  |  |
 Severely wasted | 8 (1.0%) | – |  |  |
 Moderately underweight | 99 (12.1%) | – |  |  |
 Severely underweight | 36 (4.4%) | – |  |  |
Psychosocial factors | ||||
 Child-child interaction (No) | 413 (50.4%) | 225 (27.5%) | 90.7 | < 0.001 |
 Mother-child interaction (No) | 525 (64.1%) | 307 (37.5%) | 116.1 | < 0.001 |
 Availability of play materials (No) | 652 (79.6%) | 344 (42.0%) | 243.0 | < 0.001 |
 Availability of playground (No) | 554 (67.6%) | 272 (33.2%) | 194.2 | < 0.001 |
 Play time (No) | 193 (23.6%) | 135 (16.5%) | 12.8 | < 0.001 |
 Sex-child (girls) | 420 (51.3%) | 414 (50.5%) | 0.6 | = 0.459 |
 Age-child [mean(SD)] | 30.40 (15.83) | 30.76 (15.83) | 0.5 | = 0.641 |