Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the participants

Educational level completed

  Primary level

0

  Secondary level

4

  Tertiary level

16

Employment

  Paid up jobs

17

  Self-employed

3

Ethnicity

  Chewa

6

  Ngoni

4

  Tumbuka

4

  Mang’anja

2

  Yao

2

  Lomwe

2

Parity of spouse

  First time fathers

9

  Second and more time fathers

11

Spouses’ mode of birth

  Normal vaginal birth

16

  Caesarean section

4