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Table 2 Behaviour change over time between pre-trial and trial pregnancies for four perinatal care practices.

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

  

Antenatal care attendance

Boiling the blade

Appropriate dressing of cord

Not discarding colostrum

 

Intervention

n = 2535

n = 2454

n = 2454

n = 2409

 

Control

n = 2838

n = 2762

n = 2762

n = 2711

% BETTER

Intervention

19.1

21.8

17.9

29.7

 

Control

16.6

12.1

16.3

23.2

% GOOD

Intervention

36.0

32.5

63.2

41.7

 

Control

12.5

12.8

56.7

34.7

% BAD

Intervention

36.8

39.2

4.2

17.5

 

Control

65.6

68.1

9.3

26.5

% WORSE

Intervention

8.2

6.4

14.7

11.2

 

Control

5.2

7.0

17.8

15.5

TOTAL (%)

Intervention

100

100

100

100

 

Control

100

100

100

100

Intervention/control comparisons : Odds ratios (95% confidence interval)

     

%BETTER/%BAD ratio *

 

2.04 (1.82, 2.27)

3.13 (2.78, 3.45)

2.44 (1.92, 3.13)

1.92 (1.69, 2.22)

%BETTER/%WORSE ratio*

 

0.73 (0.59, 0.91)

1.96 (1.59, 2.44)

1.33 (1.15, 1.54)

1.79 (1.52, 2.08)

%BETTER/%GOOD ratio*

 

0.40 (0.35, 0.46)

0.71 (0.61, 0.81)

0.99 (0.88, 1.10)

1.06 (0.95, 1.19)

  1. *Results from multilevel multinomial models. The estimates and intervals are adjusted to take account of the correlations between pregnancies within the same women, women from the same household, households from the same VDC and VDCs within the same matched pair. All odds ratios are significantly different to 1. Coefficients greater than 1 indicate that the women in the intervention clusters had a more favourable distribution, those less than 1 are associated with a less favourable response for the women in the intervention compared with control clusters.