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Table 3 Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding by Intervention Status, MIYCN Study, Nairobi Slums

From: Effectiveness of home-based nutritional counselling and support on exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi: a cluster randomized controlled trial

 

Control

Intervention

 

Total

 

n

%

95% CI

n

%

95% CI

p-value1

n

%

95% CI

EBF for 0–2 months

 Yes

419

79.7

76.0

82.9

394

83.5

79.8

86.6

 

813

81.5

78.9

83.8

 No

107

20.3

17.1

24.0

78

16.5

13.4

20.2

0.466

185

18.5

16.2

21.1

EBF for 0–4 months

 Yes

338

69.4

65.2

73.3

307

70.1

65.6

74.2

 

645

69.7

66.7

72.6

 No

149

30.6

26.6

34.8

131

29.9

25.8

34.4

0.929

280

30.3

27.4

33.3

EBF at for 0–6 months

 Yes

250

54.6

50.0

59.1

232

55.2

50.4

59.9

 

482

54.9

51.6

58.2

 No

208

45.4

40.9

50.0

188

44.8

40.1

49.6

0.941

396

45.1

41.8

48.4

  1. 1 P-values are computed after excluding the missing/don’t knows, and after adjusting for clustering