Table 4.
Perinatal outcomes between pre-intervention (Oct 2015 – July 2016) and during/after intervention (Aug 2016 – May 2017)
| Intervention Hospital | Control Hospital | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perinatal Outcomes | Pre [n (%)] (n = 1086) | Post [n (%)] (n = 1102) | P – value | Pre [n (%)] (n = 1272) | Post [n (%)] (n = 1144) | P – value |
| Live births | 1074 (98.9) | 1094 (99.3) | 0.1758 | 1247 (98.0) | 1110 (97.0) | 0.0547* |
| Babies born with low APGAR scores a | 18 (1.7) | 40 (3.7) | 0.0021* | 4 (0.3) | 4 (0.4) | 0.4345 |
| Macerated stillbirths | 7 (0.6) | 7 (0.6) | 0.4891 | 5 (0.4) | 16 (1.4) | 0.0039* |
| Fresh stillbirths | 5 (0.5) | 1 (0.1) | 0.0491* | 20 (1.6) | 18 (1.6) | 0.4991 |
| Neonatal deaths a | 5 (0.5) | 3 (0.3) | 0.2313 | 4 (0.3) | 1 (0.1) | 0.1122 |
aThe denominators for this analysis are 1074 and 1094 for the mentorship facility and 1247 and 1110 for the control facility for Oct’15 – July’16 and Aug’16 – May’17 periods respectively
*P ≤ 0.05 statistically significant