Table 1. Sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics of the study population.
| Variables | PLTC n (%) |
SMO n |
MNM n (%) |
MD n (%) |
p-value† |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | |||||
| < 20 | 14 (7.7) | 11 | 9 (6.3) | 2 (18.1) | 0.082 |
| 20–39 | 156 (86.6) | 133 | 126 (88.7) | 7 (63.6) | |
| ≥ 40 | 10 (5.5) | 9 | 7 (4.9) | 2 (18.1) | |
| Education | |||||
| Illiterate | 78 (43.3) | 69 | 61 (43.0) | 8 (72.7) | 0.763 |
| Read and write | 40 (22.2) | 31 | 29 (20.4) | 2 (18.1) | |
| Primary school graduate | 28 (15.6) | 23 | 22 (15.4) | 1 (9.0) | |
| Intermediate school graduate | 13 (7.2) | 12 | 12 (8.4) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Secondary school graduate | 10 (5.5) | 8 | 8 (5.6) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Higher education* | 11 (6.1) | 10 | 10 (7.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Occupation | |||||
| High professionals | 8 (4.4) | 7 | 7 (4.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1.000 |
| Non-manual or semi-skilled | 7 (3.8) | 6 | 6 (4.2) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Manual partly-skilled or unskilled | 14 (7.7) | 11 | 10 (7.0) | 1 (9.0) | |
| Housewife | 143 (79.4) | 123 | 113 (79.6) | 10 (90.9) | |
| Student | 8 (4.4) | 6 | 6(4.2) | 0(0.0) | |
| Residence** | |||||
| Urban | 96 (53.3) | 84 | 78 (54.5) | 6 (54.5) | 1.000 |
| Rural | 84 (46.6) | 69 | 64 (45.1) | 5 (45.4) | |
| Gravidity | |||||
| 1 | 54 (30.0) | 45 | 43 (30.2) | 2 (181) | 0.734 |
| 2–4 | 67 (37.2) | 57 | 52 (36.6) | 5 (45.4) | |
| ≥ 5 | 59 (32.7) | 51 | 47 (33.0) | 4 (36.3) | |
| Parity | |||||
| 0 | 6 (3.3) | 6 | 5 (3.5) | 1 (9.0) | 0.351 |
| 1–4 | 134 (74.4) | 114 | 107 (75.3) | 7 (63.6) | |
| ≥ 5 | 40 (22.2) | 33 | 30 (21.1) | 3 (27.2) | |
| Total | 180 (100.0) | 153 | 142 (100.0) | 11 (100.0) |
PLTC: potentially life-threatening condition; SMO: severe maternal outcome; MNM: maternal near-miss; MD: maternal death. *Diploma, B.Sc., and postgraduate degrees.
**Categorized according to the availability of municipality services.
†MNMs and MDs comparison.