Table 2.
Effect of intervention on maternal health utilization and newborn care practices.
| Indicators | Baseline (n = 2236) |
Endline (n = 1946) |
DiD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C (%) | I (%) | Diff. (I – C) | C (%) | I (%) | Diff. (I – C) | ||
| Health facility utilization indicators | |||||||
| Early ANC attendance | 29 | 25 | −4* | 29 | 33 | 4 | 8** |
| Attended ANC at least four times | 53 | 51 | −2 | 60 | 63 | 3 | 5 |
| Delivered at the health facility | 64 | 66 | 2 | 63 | 73 | 10*** | 8** |
| Woman received PNC services | 52 | 58 | 6** | 61 | 68 | 7** | 1 |
| Newborn received PNC services | 53 | 62 | 9*** | 62 | 70 | 8*** | −1 |
| Newborn care practices | |||||||
| Delayed bathing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 8*** | 8*** |
| Put nothing on the cord | 35 | 27 | −8*** | 21 | 33 | 12*** | 20*** |
| Skin-to-skin | 58 | 65 | 7** | 85 | 85 | 0 | −7** |
C, comparison area; I, intervention area; Diff., difference; DiD, difference in differences; ANC, antenatal care; PNC, postnatal care.
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.