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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: Int Health. 2013 Jun 26;5(3):180–195. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/iht011

Table 4.

Comparison of mortality rates in intervention and control clusters during the first and second intervention periods

1st intervention period (1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009)
2nd intervention period (1 October 2009 – 31 December 2010)
2 × 2 factorial triala
4 arm comparisonb
2 × 2 factorial triala
4 arm comparisonb
FI vs no FI
CI vs no CI
FI + CI vs control
FI vs no FI
CI vs no CI
FI + CI vs control
OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value

Stillbirth rate per 1000 birthsc 1.18 (0.83–1.69) 0.360 0.70 (0.49–1.00) 0.051 0.82 (0.50–1.36) 0.454 0.97 (0.77–1.21) 0.767 0.94 (0.75–1.18) 0.621 0.91 (0.66–1.25) 0.576
NMR per 1000 live birthsd 0.82 (0.63–1.06) 0.124 1.05 (0.81–1.36) 0.700 0.86 (0.60–1.24) 0.423 0.90 (0.69–1.17) 0.431 0.80 (0.61–1.04) 0.098 0.72 (0.50–1.05) 0.084
Early NMR per 1000 live births (0–6 days)c 0.92 (0.67–1.26) 0.599 0.95 (0.69–1.29) 0.727 0.87 (0.56–1.35) 0.534 0.92 (0.70–1.19) 0.516 0.79 (0.60–1.03) 0.083 0.72 (0.49–1.06) 0.093
Late NMR per 1000 live births (7–28 days)c 0.54 (0.31–0.92) 0.025 1.62 (0.93–2.80) 0.089 0.87 (0.39–1.91) 0.722 0.83 (0.49–1.39) 0.473 0.81 (0.48–1.37) 0.432 0.69 (0.34–1.40) 0.303
PMR per 1000 births (all stillbirths)d 1.04 (0.83–1.31) 0.719 0.81 (0.65–1.02) 0.074 0.85 (0.61–1.17) 0.309 0.94 (0.77–1.15) 0.555 0.87 (0.71–1.06) 0.179 0.82 (0.62–1.09) 0.171
MMR per 100 000 live birthsd 1.91 (0.82–4.48) 0.135 1.37 (0.60–3.09) 0.455 3.62 (0.77–17.07) 0.105 0.74 (0.32–1.69) 0.476 0.58 (0.24–1.39) 0.223 0.40 (0.11–1.54) 0.184

CI: community Intervention; FI: facilities intervention; MMR: maternal mortality ratio; NMR: neonatal mortality rate: PMR: perinatal mortality rate.

a

CI × FI interaction term not included as study underpowered to detect interactions.

b

FI only vs control and CI only vs control results not shown.

c

Secondary outcome.

d

Primary outcome.