Fig 1.
Mechanisms and pathways of male involvement to birth outcome adapted from literature [28].
Fig 2.
Trial flow diagram of the progress of study participants through the phases of the intervention.
Note: live birth includes the twins and preterm births BW–birth weight.
Table 1.
Baseline socio-demographic and economic characteristics of the pregnant women in Illu Aba Bor zone, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019.
Table 2.
Comparison of the Mean DDS and MUAC among the pregnant women ILU Aba Bor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019/20.
Table 3.
Characteristics of the new born babies, Illu Aba Bor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019/20.
Table 4.
Comparison of the newborn babies’ mean birth weight among the intervention and control group, Illu Aba Bor, Zone, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019/20.
Table 5.
Linear Mixed-Effects Model predicting birth weight of newborns in Illu Aba Bor, Zone Southwest Ethiopia, 2019/20.
Fig 3.
The indirect effect of nutrition education intervention through male involvement on birth weight, Ilu Aba Bor, zone southwest Ethiopia, 2019/20.
Note: ***p<0.001, **p <0.01, *p<0.05.
Table 6.
Analysis of the direct and indirect effect of the intervention on the birth weight in Illu Aba Bor zone, Southwest Ethiopia,2019/20.