Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of the studied pregnant women
| Characteristics | Total (n = 107) | Malaria positivity1 |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| present (n = 40, 37.4%) | absent (n = 67, 62.6%) | |||
| Mean age ± SD, years | 26.6 ± 4.5 | 26.8 ± 5.3 | 26.3 ± 2.9 | 0.63 |
| Age group, n (%) | ||||
| ≤20 years | 12 (11.2) | 7 (17.5) | 5 (7.5) | 0.11 |
| ≥21 years | 95 (88.8) | 33 (82.5) | 62 (92.5) | |
| Education, n (%) | ||||
| Primary | 18 (16.8) | 6 (15) | 12 (17.9) | 0.7 |
| Secondary | 83 (77.6) | 31 (77.5) | 52 (77.6) | 0.99 |
| Tertiary | 6 (5.6) | 3 (7.5) | 3 (4.5) | 0.51 |
| Employment status, n (%) | ||||
| Working | 59 (55.1) | 25 (62.5) | 34 (50.7) | 0.34 |
| Not working | 48 (44.9) | 15 (37.5) | 33 (49.3) | |
| Gravidity, n (%) | ||||
| Primigravida | 24 (22.4) | 12 (30) | 12 (17.9) | 0.15 |
| Secundigravida | 49 (45.8) | 21 (52.5) | 28 (41.8) | 0.52 |
| Multigravida | 34 (31.8) | 7 (17.5) | 27 (40.3) | 0.005 |
| Gestation age at booking, n (%) | ||||
| First trimester | 25 (23.4) | 9 (22.5) | 16 (23.9) | 0.87 |
| Second trimester | 65 (60.7) | 26 (65) | 39 (58.2) | 0.49 |
| Third trimester | 17 (15.9) | 5 (12.5) | 12 (17.9) | 0.46 |
| LLIN use | ||||
| Yes | 46 (43) | 11 (27.5) | 35 (52.2) | 0.01 |
| No | 61 (57) | 29 (72.5) | 32 (47.8) | |
| Anaemia, n (%) | ||||
| Yes | 70 (65.4) | 27 (67.5) | 43 (64.1) | 0.26 |
| No | 37 (34.6) | 13 (32.5) | 24 (35.9) | |
| Mean Hb ± SD, g/dl | 10.6 ± 0.7 | 10.3 ± 0.8 | 10.8 ± 0.7 | 0.009 |
1
P. falciparum-positive cases based on 34 microscopy- and RDT-positive cases plus 6 of the 12 RDT-positive PCR-corrected cases that were negative by microscopy.