Table 4.
Women’s awareness of preconception health before and after the intervention.
| Before |
After |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | ||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | P | |
| How important is it to stop smoking before pregnancy? | |||||
| Very and fairly important | 557 (94.2) | 575 (95.4) | 573 (97.6) | 574 (94.9) | 0.019 |
| Very and fairly unimportant, neither important/unimportant | 26 (4.4) | 24 (4.0) | 14 (2.4) | 27 (4.5) | |
| Do not know | 8 (1.4) | 4 (0.7) | 0 (0) | 4 (0.7) | |
| How important is it to stop using snuff before pregnancy? | |||||
| Very and fairly important | 525 (88.8) | 552 (91.5) | 548 (93.4) | 530 (88.0) | 0.004 |
| Very and fairly unimportant, neither important/unimportant | 50 (8.5) | 46 (7.6) | 33 (5.6) | 55 (9.1) | |
| Do not know | 16 (2.7) | 5 (0.8) | 6 (1.0) | 17 (2.8) | |
| How important is it to start taking folic acid before pregnancy? | |||||
| Very and fairly important | 261 (44.2) | 255 (42.4) | 458 (78) | 330 (54.5) | <0.001 |
| Very and fairly unimportant, neither important/unimportant | 168 (28.4) | 180 (29.9) | 73 (12.4) | 165 (27.3) | |
| Do not know | 162 (27.4) | 167 (27.7) | 56 (9.5) | 110 (18.2) | |
| How important is it to be of normal weight before pregnancy? | |||||
| Very and fairly important | 468 (79.2) | 460 (76.2) | 533 (90.8) | 510 (84.7) | 0.003 |
| Very and fairly unimportant, neither important/unimportant | 10 (17.4) | 114 (18.9) | 50.(8.5) | 80 (13.3) | |
| Do not know | 20 (3.4) | 30 (5.0) | 4 (0.7) | 12 (2.0) | |
| How important is it to refrain from alcohol before pregnancy? | |||||
| Very and fairly important | 468 (79.2) | 460 (76.2) | 507 (86.6) | 441 (73.0) | <0.001 |
| Very and fairly unimportant, neither important/unimportant | 103 (17.4 | 114 (18.9) | 69 (11.8) | 147 (24.3) | |
| Do not know | 20 (3.4) | 20 (3.4) | 11 (1.9) | 16 (2.6) | |
| How important is it to start taking vitamin C? | |||||
| Very and fairly important | 133 (22.5) | 127 (21.1) | 261 (44.8) | 164 (27.1) | <0.001 |
| Very and fairly unimportant, neither important/unimportant | 311 (54.6) | 319 (53.1) | 258 (44.3) | 328 (54.2) | |
| Do not know | 135 (22.9) | 155 (25.8) | 64 (11.0) | 113 (18.7) | |
The answer options in each question was ‘very important’, ‘fairly important’, ‘neither important/unimportant’, ‘fairly unimportant’, ‘very unimportant’, and ‘do not know’. In this table, the response options are congregated.
P value was adjusted for the same question before the intervention.