An assessment of food supplementation to chronically sick patients receiving home based care in Bangwe, Malawi : a descriptive study

Table 3 Mean change in BMI per 100 days for patients who survived from initial assessment to one of three surveys in Bangwe

		Number	Mean	Std. Deviation	Std. Error	95% Confidence Interval for Mean
						Lower Bound	Upper Bound
Change in BMI to June 2003		61	.07	1.64	.21	-.35	.49
Change in BMI to Nov 2003		70	.49	.82	.10	.29	.68
Change in BMI to July 2004		81	.46	.96	.11	.25	.67
Total		212	.36	1.17	.08	.20	.52
Model	Fixed Effects			1.16	.08	.20	.51
	Random Effects				.13	-.20	.91
ANOVA	Sum of Squares		df	Mean Square	F	Sig.
Between Groups	6.95		2	3.48	2.58	.08
Within Groups	281.96		209	1.35
Total	288.91		211

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