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Table 3 Sociodemographic characteristics and reproductive history of study participants by group

From: PRENACEL – a mHealth messaging system to complement antenatal care: a cluster randomized trial

 

Intervention Group

Control Group

 

All IGa (n = 770)

PRENACELb (n = 116)

(n = 440)

p (ITT)

p (PP)

Age (years)d

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

  

 18–19

86 (11.5%)

8 (6.9%)

46 (10.6%)

0.76

0.20

 20–24

228 (30.4%)

37 (31.9%)

138 (31.9%)

  

 25–29

220 (29.3%)

44 (37.9%)

125 (28.9%)

  

 30–34

131 (17.4%)

18 (15.5%)

66 (15.3%)

  

  ≥ 35

86 (11.5%)

9 (7.8%)

57 (13.2%)

  

Marital statusd

 Living with a partner

609 (81.2%)

103 (88.8%)

345 (80%)

0.68

0.04

 Not living with a partner

141 (18.8%)

13 (11.2%)

86 (20%)

  

Schooling (years)d

  < 4

29 (3.9%)

1 (0.9%)

14 (3.3%)

0.30

0.18

 5–9

289 (38.9%)

41 (35.3%)

145 (34.1%)

  

 10–12

384 (51.7%)

63 (54.3%)

244 (57.4%)

  

  > 12

41 (5.5%)

11 (9.5%)

22 (5.2%)

  

Employmentd

 Paid employment

387 (53.1%)

56 (48.7%)

213 (52.3%)

0.85

0.53

 Not employed

342 (46.9%)

59 (51.3%)

194 (47.7%)

  

Socioeconomic Classd

 Upper/Upper Middle

64 (10.1%)

6 (5.6%)

51 (14.7%)

0.0002

0.02

 Middle

359 (56.8%)

70 (65.4%)

222 (64.2%)

  

 Lower

209 (33.1%)

31 (29%)

73 (21.1%)

  

Raced

 White

281 (37.4%)

44 (37.9%)

177 (41.3%)

0.66c

0.75c

 Mixed

372 (49.5%)

60 (51.7%)

201 (46.9%)

  

 Black

88 (11.7%)

11 (9.5%)

46 (10.7%)

  

 Asian

8 (1.1%)

0 (0%)

3 (0.7%)

  

 Indigenous

2 (0.3%)

1 (0.9%)

2 (0.5%)

  

Previous pregnanciesd

 0

241 (32.3%)

37 (31.9%)

146 (34.4%)

0.62

0.93

 1

244 (32.7%)

37 (31.9%)

124 (29.2%)

  

 2

118 (15.8%)

19 (16.4%)

66 (15.6%)

  

  ≥ 3

143 (19.2%)

23 (19.8%)

88 (20.8%)

  

Previous abortionsd

 0

619 (83%)

94 (81%)

345 (81.4%)

0.54

1

  ≥ 1

127 (17%)

22 (19%)

79 (18.6%)

  

Pregnancy intentionsd

 Planned pregnancy

302 (43.1%)

58 (51.8%)

160 (41.7%)

0.68

0.07

 Unplanned pregnancy

398 (56.9%)

54 (48.2%)

224 (58.3%)

  

Pregnancy risk categoryd

 Low risk, no hospitalization

475 (67.6%)

77 (67%)

279 (71.5%)

0.20

0.41

 High risk or hospitalization

228 (32.4%)

38 (33%)

111 (28.5%)

  

Behavioural risk factorsd

 Smoking

89 (12.6%)

12 (10.3%)

59 (15.1%)

0.28

0.25

 Alcohol use

140 (19.8%)

14 (12.1%)

66 (16.9%)

0.27

0.27

 Illicit drug use

14 (2%)

0 (0%)

17 (4.3%)

0.03c

0.02c

  1. aAll IG (Intervention Group) includes all eligible pregnant women who received ANC in intervention primary health care units, regardless of the PRENACEL registration status;
  2. bPRENACEL group only includes pregnant women who received and accessed PRENACEL SMS
  3. cValues compared using Fisher’s exact test and Chi-Square test
  4. dAvailable sample for this analysis