Table 1 Antenatal services and delivery/perinatal practices during the most recent pregnancy among 413 Ugandan women
From: Use of antenatal services and delivery care in Entebbe, Uganda: a community survey
| Â | Percent of mothers |
|---|---|
Number evaluated for antenatal services received | n = 355 |
Setting in which antenatal services were received | Â |
   Entebbe Hospital | 60% |
   Other government hospitals | 15% |
   Private hospital | 15% |
   Public clinic | 10% |
Gestation at first ANC visit | Â |
   First trimester | 16% |
   Second trimester | 65% |
   Third trimester | 19% |
Number of antenatal visits | Â |
   1 visit | 4% |
   2–3 visits | 27% |
   4–6 visits | 39% |
   6–10 visits | 25% |
   >10 visits | 5% |
Services received | Â |
   Blood pressure check | 94% |
   Intermittent presumptive treatment for malaria (IPTp) | 66% |
   Counselling and offer of HIV testing | 47% |
   Syphilis test | 68% |
   Haematinics | 58% |
   Tetanus toxoid | 91% |
   Antenatal education | 69% |
Number evaluated for delivery/perinatal practices | n = 328 |
Setting in which delivery was conducted | Â |
   Entebbe Hospital | 38% |
   Other government hospital | 12% |
   Private hospital | 13% |
   Public clinic | 20% |
   Traditional birth attendant | 5% |
   At home; no trained assistance | 11% |
Delivery practices | Â |
   Assistant used gloves/washed hands with soap | 95% |
   Delivery onto a clean surface | 93% |
   Cord tied with hospital tie or new/clean thread/cloth | 98% |
   Cord cut with new blade or hospital scissors | 99% |
Postnatal practices | Â |
   Cord dressed with nothing/spirit/antiseptic | 77% |
   Baby wrapped before placenta delivered | 73% |
   Baby first bathed after at least 24 hours | 30% |
   Baby offered to breast-feed in < 1 hour | 35% |
   Baby given colostrum | 98% |
   Baby given breast-milk as its first feed | 60% |