Table 1.

Demographic and obstetric characteristics of 746 Ghanaian women, overall and according to whether they had an adverse pregnancy outcome,^* 2006

Characteristics			Adverse pregnancy outcome*				P value
	All		No (N = 413)		Yes (N = 333)
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Age (years)
< 20	100	13.4	40	9.7	60	18.0	< 0.01
20–24	187	25.1	96	23.2	91	27.3
25–29	218	29.2	126	30.5	92	27.6
≥ 30	241	32.3	151	36.6	90	27.0
Formal education
None	164	22.1	90	21.7	75	22.6	0.03
Primary	97	13.1	45	11.0	52	15.7
Middle or junior secondary	363	48.9	198	48.3	165	49.7
≥ Senior secondary	118	15.9	78	19.0	40	12.1
Weekly income (cedis)
< 100,000	174	23.6	78	19.1	96	29.1	< 0.01
100,000–199,000	49	6.6	22	5.4	27	8.2
200,000–354,000	295	39.9	161	39.4	134	40.6
≥ 355,000	221	29.9	148	36.2	73	22.1
Marital status
Single	156	21.1	60	14.6	96	29.0	< 0.01
Living in union	140	18.9	76	18.5	64	19.3
Married	445	60.1	274	66.8	171	51.7
Gravidity
One	255	30.2	108	26.2	117	35.1	0.02
Two	141	18.9	88	21.3	53	15.9
≥ Three	380	50.9	217	52.5	163	49.0
Trimester at first antenatal clinic visit
First	390	52.7	244	59.7	146	44.1	< 0.01
Second	324	43.8	157	38.4	167	50.5
Third/none	26	3.5	8	2.0	18	5.4
Sulfadoxine pyrimethamine doses
None	197	26.4	56	13.6	141	42.3	< 0.01
One	195	26.1	116	28.1	79	23.7
Two	255	34.2	169	40.9	86	25.3
Three	99	13.3	72	17.4	27	8.1
No deworming	720	97.0	400	97.6	320	96.4	0.35

^*Adverse pregnancy outcome = low birth weight or preterm delivery or small for gestational age or anemia.

Frequencies may not equal N because of missing values.

Bold: P < 0.05.