Table 1. Baseline characteristics of primi (PG)- and secundigravidae (SG) followed until delivery in Boromo Health District, Burkina Faso, 2004–2006.
PG (n = 1,235) | SG (n = 1,005) | ||||
Characteristic | Subcategory | N | % | N | % |
Age (years) | ≤17 | 393 | 31.8 | 30 | 3.0 |
18–19 | 553 | 44.8 | 231 | 23.0 | |
≥20 | 289 | 23.4 | 743 | 73.9 | |
Missing | 0 | 1 | 0.1 | ||
Matrimonial status | Married monogamous | 852 | 69.0 | 693 | 69.0 |
Married polygamous | 288 | 23.3 | 296 | 29.5 | |
Single | 95 | 7.7 | 16 | 1.6 | |
Formal education | None | 960 | 77.7 | 798 | 79.4 |
Primary school (1–3 ys) | 65 | 5.3 | 54 | 5.4 | |
Primary school (4–6 ys) | 165 | 13.4 | 122 | 12.1 | |
Secondary and higher | 40 | 3.2 | 28 | 2.8 | |
Missing | 5 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.3 | |
SES | Most poor | 283 | 22.9 | 225 | 22.4 |
Poor | 344 | 27.9 | 253 | 25.2 | |
Less poor | 300 | 24.3 | 258 | 25.7 | |
Least poor | 295 | 23.9 | 259 | 25.8 | |
Missing | 13 | 1.1 | 10 | 1.0 | |
Ethnic group | Bwaba | 460 | 37.3 | 351 | 34.9 |
Dafing | 210 | 17.0 | 192 | 19.1 | |
Ko | 144 | 11.7 | 123 | 12.2 | |
Nounouma | 149 | 12.1 | 100 | 10.0 | |
Mossi | 142 | 11.5 | 128 | 12.7 | |
Peulh | 70 | 5.7 | 55 | 5.5 | |
Other | 60 | 4.9 | 56 | 5.6 | |
Religion | Moslem | 589 | 47.7 | 484 | 48.2 |
Christian | 230 | 18.6 | 200 | 19.9 | |
Traditional | 414 | 33.5 | 321 | 31.9 | |
Missing | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | |
Residence | Village with HC* | 619 | 50.1 | 551 | 54.8 |
Next HC at ≤5 km | 260 | 21.1 | 206 | 20.5 | |
Next HC at >5 km | 356 | 28.8 | 248 | 24.7 | |
Season of delivery | Low transmission | 621 | 50.3 | 513 | 51.0 |
High transmission | 606 | 49.1 | 489 | 48.7 | |
Missing | 8 | 0.7 | 3 | 0.3 | |
Intervention arm | IPTp-SP**+promotion | 407 | 33.0 | 314 | 31.2 |
IPTp-SP alone | 442 | 35.8 | 351 | 34.9 | |
Weekly CQ | 386 | 31.3 | 340 | 33.8 |
*Health Center.
**Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine.