Table 2:
Women's group attendance for all women and by severity and type of disability
| Phase I: 1 November 2001 to 31 October 2003 (attendance in 24 women's group clusters) | All women (n = 2916) | Not disabled (n = 1863) | Severity |
Physical (n = 106) | Sensory (n = 286) | Learning (n = 205) | Behavioural (n = 107) | Epilepsy (n = 38) | Multiple mild (n = 158) | Multiple moderate (n = 35) | Multiple severe or Very severe (n = 17) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild (n = 543) | Moderate (n = 341) | Severe (n = 128) | Very severe (n = 41) | |||||||||||
| Ever attended a woman's group | 29.7% | 30.2% | 30.0% | 26.7% | 30.5% | 26.8% | 19.8% | 31.5% | 30.7% | 32.7% | 34.2% | 26.0% | 22.9% | 17.7% |
| Phase II: 1 November 2003 to 31 December 2008 (attendance in 24 women's group clusters) | n = 5770 | n = 4131 | n = 742 | n = 542 | n = 269 | n = 86 | n = 170 | n = 209 | n = 448 | n = 340 | n = 56 | n = 162 | n = 67 | n = 39 |
| Ever attended a woman's group | 19.5% | 18.9% | 21.6% | 20.3% | 21.9% | 18.6% | 22.4% | 25.4% | 19.2% | 17.9% | 32.1% | 21.6% | 22.4% | 20.5% |
| Number of meetings attended | ||||||||||||||
| 0 | 80.5% | 81.1% | 78.4% | 79.7% | 78.1% | 81.4% | 77.7% | 74.6% | 80.8% | 82.1% | 67.9% | 78.4% | 77.6% | 79.5% |
| 1 | 4.3% | 4.2% | 4.9% | 4.2% | 5.2% | 2.3% | 4.7% | 5.3% | 4.2% | 3.5% | 3.6% | 6.2% | 7.5% | 0% |
| 2 | 3.2% | 3.4% | 3.0% | 2.0% | 3.4% | 3.5% | 4.1% | 5.3% | 2.7% | 1.8% | 3.6% | 1.9% | 4.5% | 0% |
| 3 | 3.3% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 4.1% | 4.5% | 1.2% | 4.7% | 3.8% | 3.6% | 2.7% | 8.9% | 1.9% | 6.0% | 0% |
| 4 or 5 | 3.0% | 3.2% | 2.6% | 2.8% | 2.2% | 3.5% | 2.4% | 3.4% | 2.2% | 1.2% | 5.4% | 4.3% | 0% | 7.7% |
| 6–10 | 3.1% | 2.6% | 4.7% | 4.2% | 3.0% | 5.8% | 4.1% | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5.9% | 3.6% | 4.9% | 0% | 10.3% |
| 11 or more (max = 70) | 2.5% | 2.3% | 3.2% | 3.0% | 3.7% | 2.3% | 2.4% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 2.9% | 7.1% | 2.5% | 4.5% | 3.6% |
| Mean | 1.15 | 1.09 | 1.50 | 1.16 | 1.21 | 1.10 | 1.26 | 1.30 | 1.37 | 1.17 | 2.64 | 1.20 | 0.90 | 1.54 |
| SD | 4.37 | 4.37 | 5.27 | 3.39 | 3.75 | 3.05 | 5.12 | 3.44 | 4.99 | 3.43 | 6.86 | 3.51 | 2.64 | 3.41 |
| Poisson regression IRR (95% CI) compared with non-disableda | 1.33 (1.25, 1.42) | 0.99 (0.91, 1.08) | 1.06 (0.95, 1.19) | 1.13 (0.92, 1.38) | 1.02 (0.89, 1.18) | 1.10 (0.98, 1.25) | 1.38 (1.27, 1.50) | 0.96 (0.86, 1.06) | 2.62 (2.23, 3.09) | 0.97 (0.84, 1.12) | 0.78 (0.60, 1.00) | 1.69 (1.31, 2.18) | ||
| p-value | <0.000 | 0.867 | 0.283 | 0.247 | 0.720 | 0.116 | <0.000 | 0.387 | <0.000 | 0.696 | 0.050 | <0.000 | ||
| Significance | **** | ns | ns | ns | ns | ns | **** | ns | **** | ns | ns | **** | ||
IRR, incidence rate ratio; CI, confidence interval; ns, not significant.
aSignificance does not change when mother's age is added to the regression equation; except for multiple moderate where the coefficient indicating lower attendance becomes more significant—from p = 0.050 to p = 0.016.
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001.