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Table 1 Reported infant feeding practices amongst participating mothers at baseline and follow-up household surveys

From: The cost of the training and supervision of community health workers to improve exclusive breastfeeding amongst mothers in a cluster randomised controlled trial in South Africa

Baseline

Follow up

Change

 

N (%)

OR (95% CI)

N (%)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

Amongst mothers of infants > 6 weeks

 EBF for first 6 weeks of life

  Control

226/312 (72.4)

Reference

181 / 278 (65.1)

Reference

 

  Intervention

207/317 (65.3)

0.74 (0.49–1.1),

p value = 0.13

194/253 (76.7)

1.7 (1.1–2.7),

p value =0.02

2.3 (1.4–4.0),

p value = 0.001

  1. Source: [19]