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Table 2 Attendance to ANC visits

From: Evaluating the effect of maternal mHealth text messages on uptake of maternal and child health care services in South Africa: a multicentre cohort intervention study

 

Unadjusted

Adjusteda

Intervention

N (%)

n = 87

Control

N (%)

n = 90

p-value

Intervention vs control

Odds ratio (CI)

p-value

Clinician reported care seeking during pregnancy

  

 Attended at least 2 ANC visits

85 (97.7)

76 (84.4)

0.002

7.77 (2.06–29.29)

0.01

 Attended at least 3 ANC visits

80 (92.0)

59 (65.6)

0.000

5.66 (3.16–10.15)

0.00

 Attended at least 4 ANC visits

63 (72.4)

41 (45.6)

0.000

3.21 (1.73–5.98)

0.01

 Attended at least 5 ANC visits

36 (41.4)

16 (17.8)

0.001

  

 Attendance to first ANC prior to 21 weeks

0.70 (0.49–0.85)

0.78 (0.46–0.93)

0.56

0.62 (0.11–3.49)

0.503

 Mean number of ANC visits attended

4.4 (4.0–4.7)

3.2 (2.9–3.5)

0.000

3.16 (1.56–6.42)

0.009

 Gestational age (in days) at first ANC (median–CI)

123 (128.5)

105 (53.5)

0.223

1.72 (0.37–7.98)

0.407

  1. aAdjusted for country of birth