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Table 1 Practices in pre-trial pregnancies according to demographic variables

From: Behaviour change in perinatal care practices among rural women exposed to a women's group intervention in Nepal [ISRCTN31137309]

 

Number following good practice pre-trial (% of total)

 

Antenatal care attendance

Boiling the blade

Appropriate dressing of cord

Not discarding colostrum

 

n = 5373 (%)

n = 5216 (%)

N = 5216 (%)

n = 5120 (%)

Household

    

Ethnicity:

    

   Tamang

757 (21.2)

648 (18.6)

2654 (76.3)

1543 (45.3)

Brahmin-Chhetri

551 (67.0)

512 (65.0)

601 (76.3)

535 (68.8)

   Magar

103 (40.9)

83 (33.5)

187 (75.4)

151 (61.9)

   Other

212 (29.2)

258 (36.8)

526 (74.9)

407 (59.0)

No assets listed

651 (22.1)

634 (22.2)

2175 (76.0)

1333 (47.5)

Clock, radio, iron, bicycle

569 (31.9)

517 (29.8)

1305 (75.2)

896 (52.6)

More costly appliances

403 (62.5)

350 (56.6)

488 (79.0)

407 (66.8)

Mother

    

Illiterate

704 (18.6)

713 (19.3)

2816 (76.3)

1628 (45.0)

Reads with difficulty

320 (45.3)

285 (41.5)

522 (76.1)

418 (62.1)

Reads with ease

599 (68.5)

503 (60.0)

630 (75.2)

590 (71.3)

No formal education

949 (21.8)

933 (22.1)

3219 (76.2)

1959 (47.3)

Primary schooling only

395 (57.2)

325 (48.7)

503 (75.3)

424 (64.4)

Secondary or higher

279 (82.8)

243 (75.7)

246 (76.6)

253 (79.3)

TOTAL

1623 (30.2)

1501 (28.8)

3968 (76.1)

2636 (51.5)

 

Median (Interquartile range) for those following good (G) and bad (B) practice retrospectively:

Household

    

Number of months with

G: 10 (7,12)

G: 12 (7,12)

G: 10 (7, 12)

G: 10 (7, 12)

sufficient food

B: 9 (7,12)

B: 9 (7,12)

B: 9 (7, 12)

B: 10 (7, 12)

Mother

    

Age (per additional year)

G: 22.2

(19.9, 26.2)

G: 22.7

(20.1, 27.0)

G: 24.6

(20.9, 29.8)

G: 24.0

(20.8, 28.8)

 

B: 25.8

(21.6, 31.2)

B: 25.3

(21.3, 30.9)

B: 24.4

(20.9, 29.9)

B: 25.2

(21.1, 30.9)

  1. Note: Numbers are less than 5400 for each outcome since some women did not have pregnancies that progressed to the stage for that outcome to be appropriate. For example, 280 of the eligible pregnancies did not result in a live birth of a surviving mother and hence the discarding of colostrum was only appropriate as an outcome for 5120 women.