Table 1.
Association between the use of maternal health services and each level of maternal education, as well as each level of covariates
| Background characteristics | N | Maternal health services | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four or more ANC | Facility based delivery | PNC within 42 days | Received all health services | ||||||
| n (%) | P-value | n (%) | P-value | n (%) | P-value | n (%) | P-value | ||
| Maternal education | |||||||||
| <=8 | 924 | 244 (26.4) | < 0.001 | 378 (40.9) | < 0.001 | 320 (34.6) | < 0.001 | 101 (10.9) | < 0.001 |
| > 8 | 376 | 185 (49.2) | 239 (63.6) | 216 (57.5) | 116 (30.8) | ||||
| Wealth Index | |||||||||
| Poorest | 260 | 80 (30.8) | 0.001 | 88 (33.9) | < 0.001 | 96 (36.9) | < 0.001 | 32 (12.3) | < 0.001 |
| Poorer | 261 | 80 (30.7) | 111 (42.5) | 99 (37.9) | 38 (14.6) | ||||
| Middle | 259 | 71 (27.4) | 117 (45.2) | 99 (38.2) | 33 (12.7) | ||||
| Richer | 260 | 84 (32.3) | 132 (50.8) | 95 (36.5) | 40 (15.4) | ||||
| Richest | 259 | 113 (43.6) | 168 (64.9) | 146 (56.4) | 73 (28.2) | ||||
| Religion | |||||||||
| Islam | 1206 | 388 (32.2) | 0.023 | 557 (46.2) | 0.001 | 476 (39.5) | < 0.001 | 189 (15.7) | < 0.001 |
| Others | 94 | 41 (43.6) | 60 (63.8) | 60 (63.8) | 28 (29.8) | ||||
| Husband education | |||||||||
| <=8 | 963 | 249 (25.9) | < 0.001 | 397 (41.2) | < 0.001 | 339 (35.2) | < 0.001 | 103 (10.7) | < 0.001 |
| > 8 | 337 | 180 (53.4) | 220 (65.3) | 197 (58.5) | 114 (33.8) | ||||
| Distance to health centre | |||||||||
| 0–1 km | 373 | 140 (37.5) | 0.086 | 186 (49.9) | 0.242 | 167 (44.8) | 0.177 | 72 (19.3) | 0.276 |
| 2–3 km | 476 | 150 (31.5) | 231 (48.5) | 196 (41.2) | 75 (15.8) | ||||
| 4 or more | 451 | 139 (30.8) | 200 (44.4) | 173 (38.4) | 70 (15.5) | ||||
| Age at marriage | |||||||||
| Less than 18 | 842 | 258 (30.6) | 0.014 | 386 (45.8) | 0.113 | 331 (39.3) | 0.057 | 117 (13.9) | < 0.001 |
| 18 or more | 458 | 171 (37.3) | 231 (50.4) | 205 (44.8) | 100 (21.8) | ||||
| Pregnancy no. | |||||||||
| 1 | 433 | 162 (37.4) | 0.002 | 236 (54.5) | < 0.001 | 202 (46.7) | 0.003 | 88 (20.3) | 0.043 |
| 2 | 363 | 132 (36.4) | 177 (48.8) | 157 (43.3) | 60 (16.5) | ||||
| 3 | 258 | 74 (28.7) | 108 (41.9) | 92 (35.7) | 39 (15.1) | ||||
| 4 or more | 246 | 61 (24.8) | 96 (39.0) | 85 (34.6) | 30 (12.2) | ||||
Covariates: (wealth index, religion, husband education, distance to health centre, age at marriage and pregnancy number)