Table 3 Baseline mean score differences in self-efficacy (only for mothers), knowledge, attitude, savvy, help, information, presence, and responsiveness of mothers and fathers in the three groups, Mekelle, Tigray
| Â | Mothers | Fathers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mother-Father Intervention (N = 43) | Mother only Intervention (N = 43) | Control Group (N = 42) |  | Mother-Father Intervention (N = 43) | Mother Intervention (N = 43) | Control Group (N = 42) |  | |
Breastfeeding | Mean (+SD) | Mean (+SD) | Mean (+SD) | aP-value | Mean (+SD) | Mean (+SD) | Mean(+SD) | aP-value |
Knowledge | 65.7 (16.4) | 67.6 (13.1) | 60.2 (11.3) | < 0.001 | 60.9 (11.1) | 64.6 (14.3) | 57.3 (15.7) | 0.06 |
Attitude | 63.5 (7.4) | 61.6 (6.4) | 61 (8.3) | < 0.001 | 61.9 (9.2) | 58.7 (7.1) | 63.7 (8.5) | 0.02 |
Savvy | 36.6 (6.6) | 30.6 (7.1) | 41.9 (4.5) | < 0.001 | 38.9 (6.7) | 36.6 (7.2) | 38.8 (9.7) | 0.34 |
Help | 29.2 (4.7) | 24.6 (4.4) | 33.2 (3.2) | < 0.001 | 29.8 (6.2) | 28.5 (5.4) | 31.1 (6.5) | 0.15 |
Information | 25.7 (4.2) | 21(4.6) | 27.9 (3.4) | < 0.001 | 26.6 (4.2) | 25.1 (4.3) | 26.7 (6.4) | 0.27 |
Presence | 25.1 (4.1) | 20.8 (4.5) | 27.5 (3.5) | < 0.001 | 26.4 (4.4) | 25 (3.9) | 27.3 (5.4) | 0.07 |
Responsiveness | 20.4 (3.4) | 17.5 (3.1) | 22.2 (3.8) | < 0.001 | 21.1 (4.1) | 20.6 (3.7) | 22.1 (4.9) | 0.30 |
Self-efficacyb | 55.7 (6.1) | 52 (9.8) | 62 (6.9) | 0.27 | Â | Â | Â | Â |