Table 4.
Impact on delivery practices
| Delivery practices | Trained TBA | Untrained TBA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pretest (n = 20) | Post-test | Pretest (n = 30) | Post-test | |||
| Early (n = 17) | Late (n = 15) | Early (n = 28) | Late (n = 25) | |||
| Advice hygienic preparation before delivery | 75 | 100 | 100 | 60 | 92.8* | 100** |
| Use disposable delivery kit | 35 | 100* | 93.3** | 0 | 92.8* | 92** |
| Practice all five cleans | 30 | 88.2 | 93.3** | 0 | 64.3* | 88** |
| Referral if complications | 70 | 100 | 100 | 13.3 | 85.7* | 88** |
* 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