A continuous quality improvement intervention to improve the effectiveness of community health workers providing care to mothers and children: a cluster randomised controlled trial in South Africa

Table 5 Reported infant feeding practices amongst participating mothers at baseline and follow-up household surveys

	Baseline household survey		Follow-up household survey		Change—I-C, T1–T2
	N (%)	OR (95% CI)	N (%)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Amongst mothers of infants >6 weeks:
Exclusive breastfeeding for first 6 weeks of life
Control	226/312 (72.4)	Reference	181/278 (65.1)	Reference
Intervention	207/317 (65.3)	0.74 (0.49–1.1), p value = 0.13	194/253 (76.7)	1.7 (1.1–2.7), p value = 0.02	2.3 (1.4–4.0), p value = 0.001
Amongst mothers of infants <6 months:
Ever breastfed infant
Control	166/199 (83.4)	Reference	123/151 (81.5)	Reference	Reference
Intervention	164/198 (82.8)	0.96 (0.54–1.7), p value = 0.87	128/144 (88.9)	1.7 (0.86–3.5), p value = 0.12	1.8 (0.78–4.3), p value = 0.17

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