Table 1.
Variables | Study groups | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reminder/recall Intervention | Control (usual care) | χ2 | p value | |||
Frequency | % | Frequency | % | |||
Gender | 4.751 | 0.033 | ||||
Male | 130 | 44.1 | 159 | 53 | ||
Female | 165 | 55.9 | 141 | 47 | ||
Family Type | 3.276 | 0.227a | ||||
Monogamy | 280 | 94.9 | 276 | 92 | ||
Polygamy | 11 | 3.7 | 21 | 7.0 | ||
Single mother | 4 | 1.4 | 3 | 1.0 | ||
Birth Order | 1.374 | 0.503 | ||||
1 | 98 | 33.2 | 97 | 32.3 | ||
2–3 | 157 | 53.2 | 152 | 50.7 | ||
≥ 4 | 40 | 13.6 | 51 | 17.0 | ||
Family Religion | 13.129 | <0.001 | ||||
Christianity | 212 | 71.9 | 173 | 57.7 | ||
Islam | 83 | 28.1 | 127 | 42.3 | ||
Maternal Education | 9.877 | 0.007 | ||||
Below secondary | 19 | 6.5 | 39 | 13 | ||
Secondary | 165 | 55.9 | 138 | 46 | ||
Post-secondary | 111 | 37.6 | 123 | 41 | ||
Mother’s Employment Status | 8.761 | 0.067 | ||||
Unemployed | 37 | 12.5 | 22 | 7.3 | ||
Petty trading | 130 | 44.1 | 163 | 54.3 | ||
Artisan | 82 | 27.8 | 73 | 24.3 | ||
Civil servant | 39 | 13.2 | 33 | 11 | ||
Others | 7 | 2.4 | 9 | 3.0 | ||
Place of Delivery | 9.456 | 0.024 | ||||
Public health facility | 72 | 24.4 | 63 | 21 | ||
Private health facility | 100 | 38.9 | 138 | 46 | ||
Mission/TBAs | 104 | 35.3 | 86 | 28.7 | ||
Home | 19 | 6.4 | 13 | 4.3 |
aFisher’s Exact Test