Community involvement in obstetric emergency management in rural areas: a case of Rukungiri district, Western Uganda

Table 2 Respondents' knowledge about the signs of obstetric emergencies

Respondents' characteristics		Vaginal bleeding	Swelling of feet	Fits during pregnancy	Labour lasting more than 8 hrs	High temp within 42 days after pregnancy termination
	n	%	%	%	%	%
Sex
Male	340	66.2	23.2	7.7	23.8	24.4
Female	108	74.1	24.1	11.1	22.2	28.7
Age in years
15 - 24	65	66.2	21.5	7.7	24.6	23.1
25-29	101	66.3	21.8	9.9	17.8	29.7
30-34	99	72.7	27.3	10.1	29.3	30.3
35-39	101	73.3	28.7	9.9	20.8	20.8
40-54	82	59.8	15.9	3.7	25.6	22.0
Marital status
Married	428	67.8	23.4	8.9	23.6	25.9
Single/separated/widow(er)	20	75.0	25.0	0.0	20.0	15.0
Level of education
None	54	59.3	11.1	0.0	24.1	16.7
Primary	274	67.2	24.5	10.6	24.1	27.7
Secondary	90	72.2	24.4	6.7	22.2	25.6
Tertiary	30	80.0	33.3	10.0	20.0	20.0
Religion
Catholic	179	70.4	27.9	10.6	24.0	25.1
Protestant	237	64.6	19.0	6.3	21.1	23.6
Moslem	17	88.2	29.4	11.8	35.3	35.3
Others	15	73.3	33.3	13.3	40.0	46.7
Employment status‡
Unemployed/Student	137	56.9	30.0	8.5	28.5	24.6
Formal employment	46	84.8	41.3	19.6	26.1	17.4
Self-employed	265	70.9	17.0	6.8	20.8	27.6
Tribe
Mukiga	222	72.1	26.1	10.4	25.7	26.0
Munyankole	124	63.7	19.4	6.5	23.4	27.4
Omuhororo/other	102	64.7	22.6	6.9	18.6	19.6
Number of wives
One	303	66.3	23.1	8.6	22.8	24.8
More than one	37	64.9	24.3	0.0	32.4	21.6
Number of pregnancies
One	22	72.7	31.8	4.6	31.8	22.7
Two to Four	58	75.9	24.1	10.3	24.1	29.3
≥ Five	28	71.4	17.9	17.9	10.7	32.1

Key: Significance is at p-value < 0.05;
‡ implies significance for vaginal bleeding p < 0.01, swelling of feet p < 0.001 and fits during pregnancy p < 0.05

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