Table 3.
Health service utilization in intervention and control health facilities
| Service Components | Intervention | Control | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obs. | Baseline Data (2012) | Follow-up Data (2014) | Obs. | Baseline Data (2012) | Follow-up Data (2014) | |||
| Maternal healthcare services | Mean (SD)a | Mean (SD)a | p-value | Mean (SD)a | Mean (SD)a | p-value | ||
| Normal deliveries | 25 | 15 (18) | 30 (33) | 0.0013** | 19 | 22 (16) | 31 (26) | 0.0586 |
| Antenatal services | 24 | 138 (150) | 183 (206) | 0.1113 | 21 | 148 (166) | 181 (181) | 0.3325 |
| Child healthcare services | ||||||||
| Immunizations | 15 | 270 (290) | 455 (463) | 0.0642 | 18 | 287 (361) | 307 (258) | 0.7899 |
| Family planning services | ||||||||
| Distributed male condoms | 11 | 117 (211) | 67 (94) | 0.4948 | 14 | 68 (91) | 24 (35) | 0.1228 |
| Distributed female condoms | 5 | 0 (0) | 2 (2) | 0.0628 | 9 | 0 (0) | 6 (10) | 0.0918* |
| Family planning services | 19 | 129 (190) | 161 (403) | 0.6912 | 20 | 54 (72) | 66 (76) | 0.5195 |
| HIV/AIDS/STI services | ||||||||
| STIs patients | 20 | 43 (126) | 94 (84) | 0.1802 | 19 | 2.0 (6) | 103 (107) | 0.0005** |
| HIV tests for non-pregnant clients | 24 | 55 (65) | 104 (81) | 0.0213** | 21 | 97 (118) | 101 (127) | 0.8851 |
| HIV tests for pregnant women | 24 | 40 (43) | 119 (128) | 0.0067** | 18 | 101 (117) | 135 (143) | 0.4551 |
| HIV positive clients | 19 | 3 (3) | 2 (3) | 0.0095** | 19 | 2 (1.5) | 2 (2) | 0.6284 |
| Patients on PMTCT | 3 | 1 (1) | 8 (13) | 0.4240 | 4 | 26 (49) | 1 (1) | 0.3858 |
| Patients on VCT | 9 | 6 (6) | 55 (81) | 0.1164 | 8 | 1 (2) | 62 (65) | 0.0344** |
| Laboratory/radiological services | ||||||||
| Patients accessing X-ray | 3 | 133 (231) | 255 (241) | 0.5696 | 3 | 0 (0) | 120 (208) | 0.4226 |
| Ultrasounds | 3 | 42 (18) | 94 (114) | 0.5219 | 8 | 21 (36) | 22 (22) | 0.9261 |
| TB screenings | 3 | 5 (4) | 10 (16) | 0.5596 | 8 | 26 (70) | 5 (7) | 0.3837 |
| Malarial tests | 5 | 43 (76) | 380 (236) | 0.0174** | 7 | 0 (0) | 294 (219) | 0.0120** |
| General laboratory tests | 5 | 81 (150) | 576 (475) | 0.0309** | 7 | 0 (0) | 611 (441) | 0.0106** |
| General medical care services | ||||||||
| Circumcisions | 15 | 3 (6) | 8 (5) | 0.0220** | 14 | 4 (6) | 11 (11) | 0.0652* |
| Major surgical procedures | 4 | 8 (4) | 21 (19) | 0.2153 | 5 | 1 (2) | 6 (7) | 0.1783 |
| Minor surgical procedures | 28 | 2 (4) | 20 (21) | 0.0000*** | 29 | 0 (1) | 21 (18) | 0.0000*** |
Source: Field Data Greater Accra and Western Regions (2014)
Legend: aAll means have been rounded up to the nearest decimal point; HIV (Human immune-deficiency virus); AIDS
(Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome); STI (Sexually transmitted infection); PMTCT (Prevention of mother to child transmission); VCT (Voluntary
Counselling and testing); TB (Tuberculosis)
Paired t-test statistically significant at *p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.0001