3. Results
diarrhoea, vomiting, fever
EVENTS
FRAs screened 710 children; 527 children did not meet the eligibility criteria, and 162 children were enrolled in the study. 128 children out of 162 (79%) completed the three-month follow-up. We could not reach 34 children (21%) for a three-month follow-up, primarily due to the discontinuation of the study for the COVID-19 pandemic (9%), and seven participants (4%) withdrew from the intervention since they were not willing to receive the intervention any further (At baseline, there was no significant difference in any of the study covariates except for the history of a Caesarean section (The average study duration for all participants was 91.2 days (SD 3.7, range 90–114 days); control was 91.0 days, education-only was 92.5 days and yogurt-plus was 91.2 days. On average, yogurt was consumed 86.1% of the days it was distributed (95% CI: 80.6, 91.6). According to the ITT analysis (N = 162), there were no significant changes in mean LAZ or WAZ between the yogurt-plus group and the control (On the ITT analysis, the infant food frequency survey revealed that children in the education-only group were 2.44 times (95% CI: 0.45, 13.21, There were six events of hospitalization due to diarrhoea, vomiting, and/or fever; three children were from the education-only group and three from the yogurt-plus intervention group. None of the cases were diagnosed as resulting from yogurt consumption.