Table 4 Mean nutrition KA score in the intervention and control groups
Parameters | Intervention Group (n = 579) | p value | Control Group (n = 462) | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline | After 6 months | Baseline | After 6 months | |||
mean (SD) | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | |||
Knowledge | ||||||
Overall | 65.51 (15.16) | 66.21 (16.74) | 0.372 | 65.06 (17.71) | 65.26 (16.51) | 0.813 |
Gender | ||||||
Boys | 64.58 (15.88) | 62.98 (18.78) | 0.258 | 64.35 (18.21) | 64.55 (16.21) | 0.882 |
Girls | 66.14 (14.63) | 68.41 (14.85) | 0.012* | 65.57 (17.36) | 65.78 (16.74) | 0.854 |
Location | ||||||
Urban | 64.80 (15.44) | 66.44 (17.11) | 0.127 | 64.65 (15.74) | 65.72 (14.59) | 0.265 |
Rural | 66.46 (14.75) | 65.91 (16.27) | 0.633 | 66.14 (22.22) | 64.04 (20.86) | 0.273 |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Malay | 67.48 (13.61) | 67.55 (15.71) | 0.926 | 66.82 (17.40) | 67.07 (15.61) | 0.795 |
Non-Malay | 55.23 (18.42) | 59.21 (20.05) | 0.116 | 60.30 (17.75) | 60.37 (17.91) | 0.966 |
Attitude | ||||||
Overall | 63.59 (8.95) | 63.45 (7.88) | 0.684 | 62.82 (8.93) | 63.36 (7.73) | 0.148 |
Gender | ||||||
Boys | 65.08 (8.87) | 63.83 (7.35) | 0.020* | 63.83 (8.88) | 64.07 (7.70) | 0.686 |
Girls | 62.57 (8.86) | 63.19 (8.21) | 0.164 | 62.06 (8.91) | 62.83 (7.73) | 0.120 |
Location | ||||||
Urban | 63.18 (9.55) | 63.81 (8.37) | 0.180 | 62.76 (8.86) | 63.52 (7.55) | 0.089 |
Rural | 64.12 (8.07) | 62.96 (7.15) | 0.017* | 62.96 (9.13) | 62.93 (8.23) | 0.962 |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Malay | 63.69 (8.77) | 63.38 (7.91) | 0.391 | 62.22 (8.60) | 62.76 (7.37) | 0.223 |
Non-Malay | 63.03 (9.85) | 63.79 (7.71) | 0.434 | 64.40 (9.61) | 64.98 (8.46) | 0.440 |