Household demographic and socioeconomic factors
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The overall study was based on 500 mother/caregiver-infant pairs. In the present study, 57 records were excluded because the respondents were not the biological mothers of the infants. Additional two records were excluded due to mothers’ pregnancy status, which could have biased the retrospective assessment of postpartum depressive symptoms. Finally, 13 more records were excluded due to missing values of variables under investigation. The analytical sample thus resulted in 428 infants, 206 boys and 222 girls. Table Characteristics of infants, mothers, and householdsChi-square and independent sample t-test were performed using categorical and continuous variables between stunting and underweight infants versus their healthy counterparts, Mothers had a median (IQR) age of 27 (23.0, 33.0) years with a median (IQR) BMI of 27.3 (22.3, 32.8) kg/m