Impact of the HFP intervention on egg consumption
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At baseline, 13% of intervention and 14% of control women had consumed eggs in the 24 h before the survey (Table Effect of a Homestead Food Production intervention on egg consumption among women and their children aged 6−36 months.
Abbreviations: Con., Control; ICC, Intracluster correlation coefficient; Int., Intervention.The first year of the intervention was from Sep. 2015 to Aug. 2016, the second year from Sep. 2016 to Aug. 2017, and third year from Sep. 2017 to Aug. 2018. The scale‐down of the intervention was from Sep. 2018 to Sep. 2019 during which field activities were phased out and stopped by Dec. 2018 and only a nutrition counseling refresher training was provided in May 2019. The post‐intervention endline survey was conducted from Oct. 2019 to Feb. 2020.The model for children additionally includes covariates for age, square root of age, and sex, and probability weights to account for less frequent sampling of children > 18 months old during surveillance rounds.The post‐intervention survey includes only children 6−24 months old.Among children at baseline, 16% in the intervention and 14% in the control group consumed eggs in the past 24 h. The HFP intervention increased egg consumption significantly after 1.5 years, with strongest effects in the final year when children's odds of consuming eggs were tripled (Table 