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

Table 4 Changes in maternal knowledge by topic and study arm

Percentage (%) of women with correct responses	Intervention Arm			Control Arm			Difference in differences
	Pre-	Post-	(Δ_i)	Pre-	Post-	(Δ_c)	Δ_i - Δ_c (95% CI)
No. pregnant women	211	204		119	152
Adjusted Scores^a
≥ 3 messages in prenatal care	49.8	62.7	+12.9	26.5	45.8	+19.3	-6.4 (-21.3, 8.5)
≥ 3 messages in birth preparedness	20.5	47.9	+27.4	25.7	29.5	+3.8	+23.6 (9.8, 37.4)
≥ 3 danger signs during pregnancy	55.3	88.8	+33.2	40.4	44.9	+4.5	+28.7 (14.2, 43.2)
= 2 messages in clean delivery	15.7	49.2	+33.5	2.5	4.9	+2.4	+31.1 (19.4, 42.9)
≥ 3 messages in newborn care^b	32.5	57.7	+25.2	21.4	33.9	+12.4	+12.7 (-6.1, 31.5)
Mean # correct responses	8.6	12.6	+3.9	7.7	8.7	+1.0	+2.9 (1.9, 3.9)

[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] Includes only women at 6 - 9 months of pregnancy.

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