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Table 4 Coverage of recommended antenatal care practices

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

 

Intervention Group

Control Group

  

Totala (n = 770)

PRENACELb (n = 116)

(n = 440)

p (ITT)

p (PP)

Mean ANCS c

46.6 (8.0)

48.5 (4.2)

45.2 (8.7)

0.0002*

<0.0001*

≥ 6 antenatal visits

686 (89.1%)

112 (96.6%)

373 (84.8%)

0.06*

0.01*

Tetanus immunization

272 (35.3%)

39 (33.6%)

145 (33%)

0.44

0.98

Hepatitis B immunization

304 (39.5%)

44 (37.9%)

156 (35.5%)

0.18

0.70

Influenza immunization

272 (35.3%)

36 (31%)

123 (28%)

0.01

0.59

TDAP immunization

303 (39.4%)

45 (38.8%)

131 (29.8%)

0.001

0.08

Ferrous sulfate prescription

629 (81.7%)

104 (89.7%)

352 (80%)

0.52

0.8

Folic acid prescription

639 (83%)

108 (93.1%)

334 (75.9%)

0.03*

0.08*

Dental exam

322 (41.8%)

67 (57.8%)

178 (40.5%)

0.69

0.02*

Educational activities

90 (11.7%)

14 (12.1%)

58 (13.2%)

0.50

0.87

Complete blood count

736 (95.6%)

111 (95.7%)

412 (93.6%)

0.18

0.54

Blood type

716 (93%)

110 (94.8%)

397 (90.2%)

0.11

0.17

Fasting blood glucose

728 (94.5%)

110 (94.8%)

410 (93.2%)

0.40

0.67

Stool parasitology

522 (67.8%)

76 (65.5%)

249 (56.6%)

0.0001

0.10

Urinalysis

 0

52 (6.8%)

4 (3.4%)

40 (9.1%)

0.30

0.13

 1

269 (34.9%)

42 (36.2%)

144 (32.7%)

  

 2

449 (58.3%)

70 (60.3%)

256 (58.2%)

  

Urine culture

 0

90 (11.7%)

13 (11.2%)

66 (15%)

0.22

0.58

 1

224 (29.1%)

35 (30.2%)

129 (29.3%)

  

 2

456 (59.2%)

68 (58.6%)

245 (55.7%)

  

Toxoplasmosis test

743 (96.5%)

113 (97.4%)

419 (95.2%)

0.35

0.44

Syphilis test

  ≤ 2

506 (65.7%)

69 (59.5%)

331 (75.2%)

0.01*

0.03*

 3

264 (34.3%)

47 (40.5%)

109 (24.8%)

  

HIV test

  ≤ 2

515 (66.9%)

62 (53.4%)

327 (74.3%)

0.03*

0.0006*

 3

255 (33.1%)

54 (46.6%)

113 (25.7%)

  

Hepatitis B test

736 (95.6%)

113 (97.4%)

416 (94.5%)

0.50

0.30

OGTT 75 g

618 (80.3%)

98 (84.5%)

320 (72.7%)

0.003*

0.01*

Ultrasonography exam

737 (95.7%)

113 (97.4%)

410 (93.2%)

0.08

0.13

  1. ANCS Antenatal care score, TDAP immunization tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis, OGTT 75 g oral glucose tolerance test; ITT: intention-to-treat, PP per protocol analysis
  2. *p-values adjusted by multivariate analysis
  3. aAll IG (Intervention Group) includes all eligible pregnant women who received ANC in intervention primary health care units, regardless of the PRENACEL registration status;
  4. bPRENACEL group only includes pregnant women who received and accessed PRENACEL SMS
  5. cReported as mean (standard deviation)
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