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Table 1 other related factors and indices of the surveyed households by intervention and year

From: The impact of “Child Care” intervention in rural Primary Health Care Program on prevalence of diarrhea among children less than 36 months of age in rural western China

 

2001

2005

Control

Intervention

Control

Intervention

SES

 Poor

2558(32.2)

501(17.3) c

2728(34.7)

491(17.6) c

 Medium

2804(35.3)

930(32.2)

2424(30.8)

611(21.9)

 Rich

2574(32.4)

1462(50.5)

2718(34.5)

1693(60.6)

Family size (>5)

4398(55.4)

925(32.0) c

4547 (57.7)

1215(43.4) c

Child size (one)

4782(60.3)

1996(69.0)c

4350(55.2)

1898(67.9) c

Drinking boiled water

6324(79.7)

2011(69.5)c

7148(90.7)

2547(91.1)

Age of mother (Mean, SD)

26.51(4.0)

26.98(4.0) c

27.20(4.8)

27.09(4.4)

Maternal education (>9y)

538(6.8)

252(8.7) b

559(7.1)

251(9.0) b

Ethnicity(Han)

5690(71.7)

1972(68.2)c

5677(72.0)

1918(68.6) c

Age of children (m)

 0–11

2713(34.2)

975(33.7)

2645(33.5)

1196(42.8) c

 12–23

2984(37.6)

1071(37.0)

2916(37.0)

1045(37.4)

 24–36

2239(28.2)

847(29.3)

2324(29.5)

556(19.9)

Boy

4508(56.8)

1693(58.5)

4493(58.0)

1642(58.7)

Breastfeed status

7575(95.6)

2707(93.3)

7542(95.9)

2626(94.0) c

Nutritional status

 Stunting

1616(20.9)

534(19.2)

911(12.5)

287(10.3) b

 Underweight

1258(16.3)

532(19.1) c

502(6.8)

183(6.6)

 Wasting

306(4.0)

135(4.8) a

417(5.7)

134(4.8)

VAS in the last year

1992(25.1)

241(8.3) c

5538(70.2)

1634(58.4) c

Township-or-above level delivery

4172(52.6)

1075(37.2)c

6902(87.5)

2505(89.6) b

Natural delivery

7120(89.7)

2639(91.2)a

6536(82.9)

2365(84.6) a

  1. Intervention vs control: Pa<0.05, Pb<0.01, Pc<0.001; SES: socio-economic status; SD: standard deviation; VAS: vitamin A supplementation