The relationship of undernutrition/psychosocial factors and developmental outcomes of children in extreme poverty in Ethiopia

Table 2 Developmental outcomes of extremely poor and reference children

Developmental outcomes	Group	Mean	SD	t	Df	P-value
PR Personal-social	Extr. poor	.99	.14			< 0.001
PR Personal-social	Reference	1.05	.18	7.28	1636	< 0.001
PR Fine motor	Extr. poor	1.02	.10			< 0.001
PR Fine motor	Reference	1.07	.12	7.78	1636	< 0.001
PR Language	Extr. poor	.96	.13			< 0.001
PR Language	Reference	1.03	.14	9.60	1636	< 0.001
PR Gross motor Social-emotional	Extr. poor	1.04	.11			< 0.001
PR Gross motor Social-emotional	Reference Extr. Poor Reference	1.07 67.87 48.68	.10 27.52 27.15	6.32 −14.20	1636 1636	< 0.001

Note. PR Performance Ratio, SD Standard Deviation, t Independent samples t-test
statistic, Df Degree of freedom, Extr. Extremely, P-value level of significance

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