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Table 1 Comparison between community collaboration in providing nutritional guidance with distribution of MCH Handbook, number of infants who received follow-up, and municipality category by number of children eligible for health checks at 3 years old

From: Multi-professional meetings on health checks and communication in providing nutritional guidance for infants and toddlers in Japan: a cross-sectional, national survey-based study

 

n = 988

 

Collaborating group

Non-collaborating group

no

%

no

%

 

687

69.5

301

30.5

p

 

mean

SD

mean

SD

 

Number of distributions of MCH Handbook/year

693.7

1703.9

698.4

1197.5

0.240

Number of infants who received follow-up/year

58.3

140.7

70.0

164.5

0.899

Municipality category by scale of number of subjects to health checks for 3-year-old children

no

%

no

%

 

I < 8

I

11

1.6

10

3.3

0.239

8 ≤ II < 54

II

119

17.3

43

14.3

 

54 ≤ III < 391

III

301

43.8

123

40.9

 

39 ≤ IV < 2916

IV

218

31.7

106

35.2

 

2916 ≤ V

V

38

5.5

19

6.3

 
  1. p for homogeneity between 2 groups by Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel