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Table 3 Bivariate and Multivariate Associations between Maternal Mental Health Symptoms, Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Status

From: Mental health symptoms and their relations with dietary diversity and nutritional status among mothers of young children in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dietary Diversity Score (n = 776)

 

Crude

Adjusteda

 

β

(95% CI)

p-value

β

(95% CI)

p-value

HSCL-25b

0.22

(0.10, 0.33)

<0.001

0.18

(0.06, 0.30)

0.002

HTQc

0.15

(0.05, 0.26)

0.004

0.12

(0.01, 0.23)

0.029

High Distressd

0.48

(0.31, 0.66)

<0.001

0.47

(0.28, 0.65)

<0.001

BMI (n = 616)

 

Crude

Adjusteda

 

β

(95% CI)

p-value

β

(95% CI)

p-value

HSCL-25b

-0.17

(-0.53, 0.19)

0.355

-0.04

(-0.42, 0.33)

0.824

HTQc

-0.03

(-0.36, 0.30)

0.869

0.02

(-0.32, 0.36)

0.913

High Distressd

-0.19

(-0.75, 0.37)

0.512

-0.02

(-0.61, 0.56)

0.938

Underweight (n = 761)

 

Crude

Adjusteda

 

OR

(95% CI)

p-value

OR

(95% CI)

p-value

HSCL-25b

1.01

(0.69, 1.46)

0.967

0.91

(0.60, 1.37)

0.640

HTQc

1.07

(0.75, 1.51)

0.722

1.03

(0.71, 1.51)

0.866

High Distressd

0.84

(0.45, 1.56)

0.577

0.78

(0.40, 1.56)

0.489

  1. aAdjusted for intervention group, age, education level, living in territory of origin, livelihoods zone, number of children, and self-reported health status
  2. b24 items from the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 measuring depression and anxiety symptoms, range of scale scores 1–4
  3. c16 items from the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire measuring post-traumatic stress symptoms, range of scale scores 1–4
  4. dParticipants with mean item scores in the upper quartile of both measures (≥ 2.6 for the HSCL-25 and ≥ 2.5 for the HTQ)
  5. Significant p-values are set in bold
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