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Table 1 Characteristics of recently delivered women at baseline (n = 671)

From: The power of peers: an effectiveness evaluation of a cluster-controlled trial of group antenatal care in rural Nepal

 

Home visits

Home visits + group care

p-value

Household characteristics (n = 644)^

(n = 204)

(n = 440)

 

 "Low” caste (n, %)

91 (45%)

149 (34%)

0.01*

 Family size (median, IQR)

6 (4, 7)

6 (4, 7)

0.88

 Monthly household expenditure in NPR (median, IQR)

7000 (5000, 10,000)

6000 (4000, 10,000)

0.01*

 Land owned by family in kattha (median, IQR)

3 (1, 7)

3 (1, 5)

0.52

 Months food secure (median, IQR)

6 (3, 12)

5 (2, 10)

0.12

Maternal characteristics (n = 671)

(n = 214)

(n = 457)

 

 Age (median, IQR)

23 (21, 27)

25 (21, 28)

0.03*

 Used modern method of contraception (n, %)

54 (25%)

72 (16%)

< 0.01*

 Institutional births (n, %)

171 (80%)

371 (81%)

0.75

 Completed 4 ANC visits (n, %)

193 (90%)

363 (79%)

< 0.01*

  1. ^Note: 10 households (4.6%) in the home visit care only clusters and 17 households (3.7%) in the home visit plus group care clusters were missing data on caste, family size, land owned, months food secure and household monthly expenditures, and were excluded from the above analyses, thus leaving an effective sample size of 644. Twins are considered a single delivery. For the 4 ANC visit completion rate and post-partum contraceptive rate metrics, missing observations were assumed to have not completed all 4 ANC visits and not be using a modern method of contraception respectively
  2. *Statistically significant
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