Table 2.
Baseline maternal health-care services utilization by women in the intervention and control groups.
| Maternal health-care utilization | Intervention n = 175 |
Control n = 175 |
Overall N = 350 |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Had postnatal care for the last child | ||||
| Yes | 47(26.9) | 52(29.7) | 99(28.3) | 0.55 |
| No | 128(73.1) | 123(70.3) | 251(71.1) | |
| Level of compliance with PNC visits for the last child | ||||
| No PNC | 130(74.3) | 125(71.4) | 255(72.9) | 0.77 |
| Partial PNC | 27(15.4) | 32(18.3) | 59(16.9) | |
| Full PNC | 18(10.3) | 18(10.2) | 36(10.3) | |
| Qualification of past postnatal attendants | ||||
| Medical Doctor | 3(6.4) | 6(12.0) | 9(9.3) | 0.71 |
| Health officer | 8(17.02) | 9(18.0) | 17(17.5) | |
| Midwife | 29(61.7) | 26(52.0) | 55(56.7) | |
| Nurse | 7(14.9) | 9(18.0) | 16(16.5) | |
| Number of ANC visit for the index pregnancy | ||||
| <4 ANC visit | 51(29.1) | 63(36.0) | 114(32.6) | 0.171 |
| 4+ ANC Visit | 124(70.9) | 112(64.0) | 236(67.4) | |
| The index pregnancy was wanted | ||||
| Yes | 114(65.1) | 113(64.6) | 227(64.9) | 0.911 |
| No | 61(34.9) | 62(35.4) | 123(35.1) | |
p-value of the Pearson’s chi square test.