The Effects of Coconut Skim Milk and Coco-Dairy Milk Blend on the Nutritional Status of Schoolchildren

Table 6

Prevalence of underweight, stunting, and wasting among child participants.

Nutritional indices	Control group		Intervention groups				value^2
	Cow's milk; n = 122		Coco-dairy milk blend; n = 95		Coconut skim milk; n = 100
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Underweight
Baseline	96	78.7	66	699.5	68	68	0.15
Endpoint	81	66.4	49	51.6	59	59	0.087
Change	−15	12.3	−17	17.9	−9	9
value^1	0.001	0.000	0.049
Stunting
Baseline	93	76.2	74	77.9	83	83	0.452
Endpoint	92	75.4	69	72.6	74	74	0.897
Change	−1	0.8	−5	5.3	−9	9
value^1	1	0.180	0.012
Wasting
Baseline	23	18.9	13	13.7	11	11	0.244
Endpoint	17	13.9	10	10.5	6	6	0.156
Change	−6	5	−3	3.2	−5	5
value^2	0.12		0		0

¹McNemar’s test. ²Chi-square test of independence. Significant at α = 0.05.