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Table 3 Pile sorting of child care activities (n = 60 respondents)

From: Integrated agriculture programs to address malnutrition in northern Malawi

 

Pre-recipe days

Post-recipe days

Childcare activities

Mainly wives (%)

Mainly husbands (%)

Done almost equally (%)

Mainly wives (%)

Mainly husbands (%)

Done almost equally(%)

Bathing child

60 (100)

-

-

58 (97)

-

2 (3)a

Changing diaper

60 (100)

-

-

60 (100)

-

-

Cooking for child

60 (100)

-

-

54 (90)

-

6 (10)a

Feeding child

60 (100)

-

-

52 (87)

-

8 (13)a

Doing laundry

60 (100)

-

-

58 (97)

-

2 (3)a

Playing with child

60 (100)

-

-

7 (12)

1 (1.7)

52 (87)a

Taking child to under-five clinic

60 (100)

-

-

57 (95)

-

3 (5)a

Going to hospital with the child

15 (25)

-

45(75)

10 (17)

2(3)

48 (80)a

Nursing sick child

58 (97)

-

2 (3)

55 (92)

-

5 (8)a

  1. aindicates reported change in practice