The economic burden of maternal mortality on households: evidence from three sub-counties in rural western Kenya

Table 5 Care seeking among case and control women during pregnancy¹

	Cases	Controls	p-values
Total number of women	59	86
% who reported complications	74.6%	88.4%	0.042**
% of those with complications who sought care	84.6%	65.8%	0.021**
Total number of visits for care	76	97
Average number of visits for care ²	2.53	1.94	0.043**
Where sought care (%) ³
Government/mission health center/clinic	58%	68%	0.346
Government/mission hospital	52%	34%	0.120
Private clinic	12%	0%	0.044**
Private hospital	6%	6%	0.991
Pharmacy/duka	6%	4%	0.685
Traditional healer	3%	2%	0.778
Retired/current practitioner (informal)	0%	2%	0.322

1. (*) significance at 1%; (**) significance at 5%; (***) significance at 10%.
2. Average number of visits for care is calculated for women who sought care only – not the full sample. Of the 33 cases, we know the number of visits for 30 – those 30 made a total of visits and the 50 controls made a total of 97 visits
3. Women might have sought help in more than one type of service

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