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Table 6 Impact of changes in nutrition knowledge on adult dietary diversity

From: Effectiveness of participatory trainings in improving nutrition knowledge and dietary diversity in rural Bangladesh

 

Comprehensive nutrition knowledge score

Food groups and nutrients score

Variable

(1)

(2)

Pre-intervention score

0.02

[− 0.150, 0.202]

0.02

[− 0.152, 0.205]

Change in nutrition knowledge

0.04*

[− 0.004, 0.083]

0.01

[− 0.022, 0.052]

Mymensingh

3.59***

[2.585, 4.645]

3.45***

[2.413, 4.560]

Female

0.50

[− 0.898, 1.818]

0.54

[− 0.897, 1.875]

Age

0.01

[− 0.017, 0.037]

0.01

[− 0.018, 0.042]

Completed primary school

0.23

[− 0.446, 0.950]

0.24

[− 0.429, 0.919]

Muslim

0.17

[− 2.237, 3.427]

0.19

[− 1.980, 2.357]

Log of total land

0.12

[− 0.061, 0.325]

0.13

[− 0.049, 0.325]

Low on-farm crop diversity

− 0.38

[− 1.379, 0.632]

− 0.39

[− 1.327, 0.634]

Constant

4.24

[1.162, 6.840]

4.32

[1.416, 6.881]

Observations

347

347

R-squared

0.38

0.37

  1. Estimated coefficients are reported with wild bootstrap 95% confidence intervals in brackets; *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1