Determinants of maternal health services utilization in urban settings of the Democratic Republic of Congo – A Case study of Lubumbashi City

Table 8 Factors determining non-use of maternal healthcare services: OR adjusted by logistic regression

	Antenatal consultations (No versus Yes) n = 1762			Delivery at a health facility (No versus Yes) n = 1762			Postnatal consultations (No versus Yes) n = 1762
							PNC ≤ 7 days			PNC ≤ 28 days			PNC ≤ 42 days
	aOR	95%CI	p	aOR	95%CI	p	aOR	95%CI	p	aOR	95%CI	p	aOR	95%CI	p
Age (year)			0.07			0.05	‡			‡					0.81
<20	1.5	0.9-2.8		0.6	0.3-1.5								0.9	0.6-1.3
≥35 vs 20-34	0.9	0.5-1.8		0.4	0.2-1.1								0.9	0.7-1.3
Single vs Married	1.1	0.5-2.5	0.14	1.0	0.4-3.1	0.97	‡			‡			‡
Profession			0.45	‡			‡			‡			‡
Sales vs Household	1.3	0.9-2.0
Agriculture vs Household	1.1	0.5-2.3
Public service vs Household	0.8	0.4-2.8
Level of studies			0.09			0.35	‡			‡			‡
None and primary vs Secondary	1.4	0.8-2.3		1.1	0.7-1.9
University vs Secondary	1.4	0.8-2.5		1.5	0.9-2.6
Parity (number)			<0.001			0.05	‡			‡			‡
1 vs 2-4	1.8	1.1-2.8		0.7	0.3-1.6
≥5 vs 2-4	2.0	1.2-3.4		0.6	0.3-1.1
Complications at previous delivery	‡					0.79	‡			‡			‡
Yes vs No				1.1	0.7-1.9
Primigestvs No				1.2	0.5-2.8
Without ANC vs ANC	†			0.5	0.2-1.3	0.09	2.6	1.1-6.1	0.002	2.3	1.3-3.9	<0.001	2.1	1.3-3.3	<0.001
Home delivery (Yes vs No)													1.0	0.7-1.5	0.98
Complications at current delivery (Yes vs No)	†			†			0.6	0.3-0.9	0.04	0.6	0.4-0.9	0.03	0.5	0.3-0.8	0.004
Desire for pregnancy			<0.001			0.93			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001
Partner vs Unwanted	0.7	0.3-1.8		0.7	0.3-2.1		0.4	0.2-0.8		0.6	0.4-1.1		0.9	0.5-1.4
Woman vs Unwanted	0.2	0.1-0.8		1.0	0.4-2.3		0.5	0.3-0.8		0.6	0.4-0.9		0.4	0.3-0.7
Couple vs Unwanted	0.5	0.3-0.8		0.9	0.6-1.4		0.5	0.4-0.7		0.6	0.5-0.7		0.5	0.4-0.6

‡: not included in the model; †: not calculated, same date or no temporal relationship; vs: versus (comparison group follows “versus”).

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