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Table 3 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients treated by participating traditional birth attendants

From: mHealth intervention to improve the continuum of maternal and perinatal care in rural Guatemala: a pragmatic, randomized controlled feasibility trial

Characteristica

Early-Access Arm (N = 335)b

Later-Access Arm (N = 327)b

p value

Age (years)

26 [22–31]

26 [22–31]

0.59

Nulliparous

71 (21)

61 (19)

0.43

Number of pregnancies

3 [2–5]

3 [2–5]

0.73

Previous caesarian sectionc

27/263 (10)

33/263 (13)

0.41

Previous facility birthc

88/261 (34)

91/261 (35)

0.78

Previous perinatal complicationc

84/265 (32)

83/263 (32)

0.97

Referral to hospital in last pregnancyc

60/262 (23)

59/262 (23)

0.92

Obstetric care barriers in last pregnancy

20/60 (33)

17/59 (29)

0.59

 Lack of transportation

14 (70)

12 (71)

0.97

 Scarce economic resources

8 (40)

14 (82)

0.009

 Distance to hospital

4 (20)

5 (29)

0.51

 Hospital mistreatment

5 (25)

2 (12)

0.31

  1. aData are median [IQR], or n (%)
  2. bWhere individual data was missing or not applicable for the entire sample, the denominator used to calculate each characteristic is given
  3. cCalculated after excluding nulliparous individuals