Table 4: Maternal Hemoglobin and Ferritin levels by group.
*p value < 0.05, **p value <0.0001
*** Ferritin was not normally distributed so Whitney U test was applied.
| Intervention arm | Control arm | P-value |
| Hemoglobin(gm/dl) | | | |
| Baseline | 11.1 ±1.9 | 11.2±1.8 | 0.778 |
| Endline | 10.4±1.8 | 10.20±1.6 | 0.341 |
| Difference (Endline to baseline) | -0.5±2.4* | -0.9±2.32** | <0.0001 |
| Anemic (< 10 gm/dl)- | | | |
| Baseline | 39 (26.0) | 38 (25.5) | 0.922 |
| Endline | 45 (42.5) | 45 (39.8) | 0.693 |
| P-value | 0.005 | 0.013 | |
| Ferritin(mg/dl)*** | | | |
| Baseline | 26.8±29.1 | 26.3±32.8 | 0.068 |
| Endline | 34.7±62.3 | 20.9±31.9 | 0.005 |
| Difference (Endline to baseline) | 6.3±70.2 | 6.0±37.1 | |