Impact of improved on-farm storage on perceived coping in pregnant women
For perceived stress and perceived coping, we expected the strongest treatment effects during the lean season when food stocks were depleted, which would then decrease after the start of the new storage period (the end of the main harvest). The results of the linear mixed-effects model show that pregnant women in the treatment households scored on average 0.167 points less than the control households on the coping measure over the entire observation period combined, which indicates higher perceived coping (When analyzing each survey month separately, pregnant women in the treatment households perceived a higher ability to cope with stress in 11 out of 12 months compared to pregnant women in the control households (