Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the school children (n=582)

VariablesMean±SD/n (%)
Girl-level factors
 Age of girls (years)13.8±1.9
 Ethnicity (%)
  Dagomba355 (61.0)
  Konkomba227 (39.0)
 Religion (%)
  Muslim355 (61.0)
  Christian217 (37.0)
  Africa traditional10 (1.7)
 Dietary Diversity Score5.7±1.1
 Mean frequency of fruits and vegetable consumption over the last 30 days15.9±4.9
 Mean frequency of animal source consumption over the last 30 days9.8±3.5
 Life satisfaction (%)
  Low213 (36.6)
  High369 (63.4)
 Self-esteem score33.6±3.3
 Self-efficacy score29.8±5.5
 Health complains score−0.9±2.9
 Menarche status (%)
  Premenarche300 (51.5)
  Postmenarche282 (48.5)
 Mean score pubertal development2.1±0.7
 School attendance (log transformed)5.1±0.3
Maternal-level factors
 Age of mother (%)
  30–49 years527 (90.5)
  50+ years55 (9.5)
 Mother is literate (%)46 (7.9)
 Occupation of the mother (%)
  None38 (6.5)
  Farmer430 (73.9)
  Other114 (19.6)
 Parity6.5±2.2
Household-level factors
 Household size12.1±5.3
 Female to male (sex) ratio1.6±1.5
 Dependency ratio1.1±0.8
 Literacy ratio0.6±0.3
 Wealth index49.0±11.5