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. 2020 Dec 19;10(2):021005. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021005

Table 3.

Health behaviours of maternal household respondents exposed vs unexposed to Mobile Kunji in eight focus districts, Mathematica (2014) survey, Bihar, India

Exposed to Mobile Kunji Unexposed to Mobile Kunji OR (95% CI)*
Sample size (n)
318
2774

Antenatal care (%):



Received 90+ iron-folic acid (IFA) tablets
27.8
15.9
2.0 (1.5-2.7)
Consumed 90+ IFA tablets
27.5
13.8
2.3 (1.8–3.1)
Delivery preparedness (%):
Saved money for delivery
91.7
77.5
3.2 (1.7-5.9)
Identified transport for delivery
69.8
55.7
1.8 (1.3-2.6)
Saved important phone numbers for delivery
71.5
41.9
3.5 (2.0-6.0)
Prepared all three items above for delivery
55.4
30.9
2.8 (1.9-4.2)
Breastfeeding (%):
Breastfed child within 1 hours of delivery
50.5
52.3
0.9 (0.7-1.3)
Breast fed child within 2 hours of delivery
69.8
67.2
1.2 (0.7-1.8)
Exclusive breast feeding for child (6-12 months)
77.6
65.1
1.8 (1.3-2.7)
Immunisation (%):
Fully immunised, except measles
25.0
29.4
0.9 (0.6-1.1)
Contraception (%):



Plan to use in the next 12 months
47.1
40.1
1.3 (0.8-2.2)
Current use of any modern method
24.4
19.0
1.2 (0.7-2.2)
Complementary feeding (6-11 months) (%):
Sample size (n)
112
1197

Began receiving any solid/semisolid food by age 6 months
79.5
67.0
1.9 (1.0-3.5)
Received recommended frequency of feeding yesterday
34.7
32.2
1.1 (0.6-2.0)
Received recommended quantity of feeding yesterday
5.8
9.3
0.7 (0.2 -2.5)
Dietary diversity index, food fed in the past 24 hours (0-6)†, mean ± sd
1.84 ± 0.16
1.42 ± 0.05
1.3 (1.0-1.7)
Food frequency index, foods fed in the past 7 days†, mean ± sd 3.08 ± 0.40 2.36 ± 0.08 1.3 (0.9 -1.8)

OR – odds ratio, CI – confidence interval, sd – standard deviation

*All models adjusted for age, SC/ST, birth parity, SES quartile, household having BPL card, urban/rural. Reference group is women who were unexposed to Mobile Kunji in all models. OR>1 means higher odds of the indicators for women who were exposed to Mobile Kunji vs women who were unexposed to Mobile Kunji.

†Survey-weighted Poisson regressions were used for the count indicators, risk ratios were reported.