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. 2024 Feb 19;69:1606289. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1606289

TABLE 2.

Prenatal care services utilization and reasons for non-compliance among Italian and immigrant women. Italy, 2020.

A. Prenatal care services’ compliance by citizenship and respective p-values.
Prenatal care services Citizenship p-value
Italian Immigrant
N = 1,198 N = 114
Number of prenatal visits 0.03
 <8 visits 427 (35.6%) 52 (45.6%)
 ≥8 visits 771 (64.4%) 62 (54.4%)
At least 1 ultrasound in each trimester 0.12
 No 63 (5.26%) 10 (8.8%)
 Yes 1,135 (94.7%) 104 (91.2%)
Glucose tolerance test 0.77
 No 187 (15.6%) 19 (16.7%)
 Yes 1,011 (84.4%) 95 (83.3%)
GBS screening 0.12
 No 71 (5.9%) 11 (9.6%)
 Yes 1,127 (94.1%) 103 (90.4%)
Emergency care visit 0.005
 No 391 (32.6%) 52 (45.6%)
 Yes 807 (67.4%) 62 (54.4%)
Prenatal course 0.32
 No 801 (66.9%) 71 (62.3%)
 Yes 397 (33.1%) 43 (37.7%)
Influenza vaccination <0.0001
 No 961 (80.2%) 69 (60.5%)
 Yes 237 (19.8%) 45 (39.5%)
Pertussis vaccination 0.10
 No 580 (48.4%) 46 (40.3%)
 Yes 618 (51.6%) 68 (59.7%)
B. Reasons for not attending prenatal care services by citizenship and respective p-values.
Reasons for non-compliance with prenatal care services Citizenship p-value
Italian Immigrant
At least 1 ultrasound in each trimester 1.00
 No, due to COVID 29/63 (46.0%) 5/10 (50%)
 No, due to other reason 34/63 (54.0%) 5/10 (50%)
Glucose tolerance test 0.16
 No, due to COVID 25/187 (13.4%) 5/19 (26.3%)
 No, due to other reason 162/187 (86.6%) 14/19 (73.7%)
GBS screening 0.05
 No, due to COVID 8/71 (11.3%) 4/11 (36.4%)
 No, due to other reason 63/71 (88.7%) 7/11 (63.6%)
Emergency care visit 0.09
 No, due to COVID 22/391 (5.6%) 0/52 (0%)
 No, due to other reason 369/391 (94.4%) 52/52 (100%)
Prenatal course <0.001
 No, due to COVID 313/801 (39.1%) 43/71 (60.6%)
 No, due to other reason 488/801 (60.9%) 28/71 (39.4%)
Influenza vaccination 0.03
 No, due to COVID 130/961 (13.5%) 16/69 (23.2%)
 No, due to other reason 831/961 (86.5%) 53/69 (76.8%)
Pertussis vaccination 0.003
 No, due to COVID 108/580 (18.6%) 17/46 (37%)
 No, due to other reason 472/580 (81.4%) 29/46 (63%)

Bold values denote p-values < 0.05.