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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Aug 22;18(10):10.1111/tmi.12171. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12171

Table 4.

Experience seeking antenatal care services reported by 1190* women who sought antenatal care in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Health zone
Overall [n (%)] Kisenso [n (%)] Masina 2 [n (%)] Binza Météo [n (%)] Bandalungwa [n (%)]
Waiting time
<60 minutes 792 (61.9) 237 (80.5) 140 (45.5) 190 (66.0) 225 (76.3)
1-2 hours 270 (25.3) 40 (14.2) 79 (29.4) 91 (31.2) 60 (21.5)
>2 hours 100 (12.8) 16 (5.3) 70 (25.0) 8 (2.7) 6 (2.2)
Clean facility 1063 (91.1) 274 (92.8) 264 (91.6) 274 (90.4) 251 (84.2)
Friendly welcome 1167 (98.9) 294 (98.6) 289 (98.9) 299 (99.3) 285 (98.4)
Satisfactory treatment by staff (not provider) 1065 (90.8) 263 (88.0) 274 (94.4) 268 (88.4) 260 (88.9)
Enough privacy 985 (79.2) 223 (74.2) 212 (73.8) 264 (87.9) 286 (98.7)
Providers used language participant could understand 1095 (91.6) 239 (80.2) 271 (93.4) 298 (98.7) 287 (99.0)
Participant wanted provider to spend more time with her 263 (21.9) 77 (26.7) 70 (23.7) 41 (13.6) 75 (23.2)
Participant had questions for providers but did not ask them 144 (11.8) 41 (14.4) 30 (10.4) 35 (11.4) 38 (11.6)
Participant had a hard time understanding answers to her questions 250 (23.0) 51 (17.0) 74 (26.6) 78 (25.5) 47 (15.5)
Participant felt uncomfortable discussing personal issues with provider 80 (7.1) 27 (8.8) 21 (7.1) 17 (5.9) 15 (4.3)
Provider ignored complaints regarding participant’s health 473 (47.4) 156 (51.5) 170 (60.6) 86 (29.0) 61 (20.1)
Providers treated participant with respect 1114 (93.0) 270 (89.5) 278 (94.9) 281 (92.6) 285 (96.6)
Providers showed interest in participant 1047 (86.1) 248 (82.6) 251 (86.4) 265 (86.9) 283 (95.5)
*

Data were missing for fewer than 5% of participants for all responses.

Frequencies are unweighted and percentages are weighted.

Modified Rao-Scott chi-square test of association between variable and health zone has p-value <0.05.