Table 3.
Impact on the antenatal care provided
Antenatal care | Trained TBA | Untrained TBA | ||||
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Pretest (n = 20) (%) | Post-test | Pretest (n = 30) (%) | Post-test | |||
Early (n = 17) (%) | Late (n = 15) (%) | Early (n = 28) (%) | Late (n = 25) (%) | |||
Advice regular ANC visits to health centre | 40 | 70.6 | 86.6** | 10 | 42.8* | 48** |
Advice IFA and Calcium tablets | 40 | 64.7 | 73.3** | 10 | 35.7 | 44** |
Advice to take Inj. TT | 35 | 64.7 | 73.3** | 3.3 | 28.6 | 36** |
* Indicates the statistically significant (p < 0.05) improvement in the percentage of TBAs at early post-test evaluation compared to pretest
** Indicates the statistically significant (p < 0.05) improvement in the percentage of TBAs at late post-test evaluation compared to pretest