Antenatal counseling in maternal and newborn care: use of job aids to improve health worker performance and maternal understanding in Benin

Table 2 Changes in mean percent of messages provided during antenatal visit by topic and study arm

Mean % of messages provided	Intervention Arm			Control Arm			Difference in differences
	Pre-	Post-	Differ-ence (Δ_i)	Pre-	Post-	Differ-ence (Δ_c)	Δ_i-Δ_c(95% CI)
No. of pregnant women	211	204		119	152
Adjusted Scores^a
Mean % of messages given (total)	51.4	67.9	+16.5	35.5	32.4	-3.1	+19.6 (12.2, 26.9)
Mean % of messages given (by topic^b)
Prenatal Care	64.5	68.6	+4.1	51.4	47.4	-4.1	+8.2 (-2.6, 19.1)
Birth preparedness	53.7	66.5	+12.9	40.5	35.4	-5.1	+17.9 (6.7, 29.1)
Danger signs during pregnancy	38.8	63.5	+24.7	24.4	23.1	-1.3	+26.0 (14.6, 37.4)
Clean delivery	49.1	70.4	+21.3	15.1	14.7	-0.4	+21.7 (10.9, 32.6)
Newborn care^c	20.6	49.3	+28.7	3.8	6.3	+2.5	+26.2 (13.5, 38.9)
Mean % of communication techniques used	46.2	75.4	+29.2	42.7	43.0	+0.3	+28.8 (22.5, 35.2)
Mean duration of antenatal consultation^d	18.3	23.9	+5.6	15.8	15.5	-0.3	+5.9 (3.0, 8.8)

[a] Scores adjusted for differences at baseline and correlation of observations; site- and provider-level characteristics (random effects); counseling mode; and patient age, education, first antenatal visit, and total number of antenatal visits (fixed effects). [b] Total number of messages by category include: prenatal care (n = 5), birth preparedness (n = 7), danger signs during pregnancy (n = 9); clean delivery (n = 2); newborn care (n = 6); communication techniques (n = 6). [c] Includes only women at 6 - 9 months of pregnancy. [d] Excludes additional time for women who participated in individual counseling following group session.

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