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Table 5 Linkages between caregivers and frontline workers and services received in the community-based phase of the program

From: Progress of children with severe acute malnutrition in the malnutrition treatment centre rehabilitation program: evidence from a prospective study in Jharkhand, India

Distribution of Take Home Ration (THR) in the previous month (%)

≤ 1/3 amount

1/3–2/3 amount

Full amount

Mean amount (grams ± SD)

 Rice (3000 g)

81

19

1129 ± 362.5

 Lentils (750 g)

78

22

269.4 ± 92.5

 Soyabean (500 g)

63

37

171.1 ± 94.6

 Cooking oil (250 g)

16

60

24

123.5 ± 66.1

 Sugar (1900 g)

100

249.1 ± 104.5

Contact with Frontline workers in last 2 months (%)

None

One contact

Two contacts

Three or more contacts

 AWW

12

28

38

22

 ASHA (Sahiya)

21

25

33

21

 ANM

36

29

28

7

Weight measurement by frontline workers in last two months (%)

Not weighed

Weighed once

Weighed twice

Weighed thrice

 

31

33

26

10