Research Article
Nutrition Education Improves Knowledge of Iron and Iron-Rich Food Intake Practices among Young Adolescents: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial
Table 2
Characteristics of the participants and guardians by study groups.
| | Study characteristics | Total (, %) | Intervention group | Control group | | value |
| | Gender | | | | | | | Boys | 70 (51.1) | 43 (62.3) | 27 (39.7) | 7.0 | 0.010 | | Girls | 67 (48.9) | 26 (37.7) | 41 (60.3) | | | | Level of education participants | | | | | | | Primary | 96 (70.1) | 50 (72.5) | 46 (67.6) | 0.4 | 0.579 | | Junior high school | 41 (29.9) | 19 (27.5) | 22 (32.4) | | | | Guardians | | | | | | | Formal education | 106 (77.9) | 58 (85.3) | 48 (70.6) | 4.3 | 0.062 | | No formal education | 30 (22.1) | 10 (14.7) | 20 (29.4) | | | | Frequency of deworming | | | | | | | Regularly | 10 (7.3) | 5 (7.2) | 5 (7.4) | 0.0 | 1.000 | | Occasionally | 127 (92.7) | 64 (92.8) | 63 (92.6) | | | | Iron supplement | | | | | | | Yes | 114 (83.2) | 56 (49.1) | 58 (50.9) | 0.4 | 0.649 | | No | 23 (16.8) | 13 (56.5) | 10 (43.5) | | | | Frequency of iron supplement intake | | | | | | | Regularly | 7 (5.1) | 7 (10.1) | 0 (0.0) | 7.7 | 0.006 | | Occasionally | 130 (94.9) | 62 (89.9) | 68 (100) | | | | Guardians income status | | | | | | | Low | 100 (73.0) | 44 (63.8) | 56 (82.4) | 6.0 | 0.020 | | Moderate | 37 (27.0) | 25 (36.2) | 12 (17.6) | | |
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Frequency (percentage); chi-square ( ); value is significant at <0.05. |
