Table 1 –
Women's perceptions of the causes of pregnancy loss sorted by salience score.
| Cause of pregnancy loss | Salience score |
|---|---|
| Rural farmers | |
| Heavy weight | 26.68 |
| Hot foods | 25.51 |
| Don't know | 23 |
| Long journey | 7.49 |
| Work | 4.33 |
| Taking medicine | 4.33 |
| Sex | 3 |
| Eating sweets | 2 |
| Small stress | 1 |
| Nothing | 1 |
| Obesity | 1 |
| Walking upstairs | 0.67 |
| Not caring | 0.67 |
| Depression | 0.33 |
| Jenu Kuruba | |
| Don't know | 22.5 |
| Superstition (devil) | 2 |
| Papaya | 1.67 |
| Nothing | 1 |
| Sex | 1 |
| Take medicine | 1 |
| Take food with ‘chemicals’ (pesticides) | 1 |
| Herbal medicine | 1 |
| Heavy weight | 0.5 |
| Sugarcane | 0.33 |