Table 1 Characteristics associated with report of infant outcomes at six month follow-up in the LIFE study
Diarrhea or Respiratory Infection and/or Difficulty Breathing | p-value | Comorbid Diarrhea and Respiratory Infection | p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||
% | % | % | % | ||||
N = 418 | N = 433 | N = 45 | N = 806 | ||||
Infant Characteristics | |||||||
Infant sex | Boy | 53.5 | 51.1 | 0.47 | 38.6 | 53.0 | 0.06 |
Girl | 46.5 | 48.9 | 61.4 | 47.0 | |||
Gestational age at birth | Mean weeks ± SD | 38.9 ± 2.4 | 38.8 ± 2.5 | 0.93 | 38.9 ± 2.4 | 38.6 ± 2.5 | 0.48 |
Birth weight | Mean kg ± SD | 2.8 ± 0.4 | 2.8 ± 0.5 | 0.46 | 2.8 ± 0.4 | 2.7 ± 0.5 | 0.21 |
Weight at 6 months | Mean kg ± SD | 7.1 ± 1.0 | 7.1 ± 1.1 | 0.95 | 7.1 ± 1.0 | 6.9 ± 1.0 | 0.09 |
Age at time of questionnaire | Mean months ± SD | 6.5 ± 1.0 | 6.5 ± 0.8 | 0.90 | 6.5 ± 0.9 | 6.6 ± 0.8 | 0.63 |
Infant Feeding | |||||||
Ever breastfed | Yes | 100 | 99.5 | 0.17 | 100 | 99.8 | 0.74 |
Time to breast feeding initiation from birth (hours) | ≤1 h | 70.3 | 69.6 | 0.81 | 57.8 | 70.6 | 0.07 |
2–20 h | 29.7 | 30.4 | 42.2 | 29.4 | |||
Breastfeeding at 6 months | Yes | 98.1 | 97.7 | 0.68 | 100 | 97.7 | 0.31 |
Given anything other than breast milk to infant | Yes | 87.8 | 90.3 | 0.25 | 82.2 | 89.4 | 0.13 |
Hygiene/ Sanitation | |||||||
Where is your infants waste disposed? | Put/rinsed into toilet or latrine | 23.5 | 20.3 | 0.02 | 37.8 | 21.0 | 0.004 |
Put/ rinsed into open drain or ditch | 31.6 | 25.6 | 37.8 | 28.0 | |||
Buried | 19.9 | 29.0 | 4.4 | 25.7 | |||
Thrown into garbage | 10.4 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 11.5 | |||
Left in the open | 14.6 | 12.7 | 8.9 | 13.9 | |||
Maternal Health at 6 months | |||||||
Ailments in the past month | Maternal Diarrhea | 0.7 | 0 | 0.08 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.03 |
Maternal Respiratory Infection | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.02 | 11.4 | 0.9 | < 0.0001 | |