“I am a person but I am not a person”: experiences of women living with obstetric fistula in the central region of Malawi

Table 1 Characteristics of participating women with fistula

ID	Age group	Years in school (range)	Parity	Children alive	Pregnancy causing fistula	ANC at least attended once	Type of delivery	# of days in labor	Fetal outcome	Years/month(m) with fistula
1	33–42	0–3	3	2–3	2	Yes	CS	3	SB	12
2	33–42	4–7	5	2–3	3	Yes	Normal	2	SB	12
3	N/A	0–3	7	4–5	7	Yes	CS	1	SB	10
4	16–32	8–12	2	2–3	2	Yes	Normal	1	Alive	1
5	16–32	4–7	1	0–1	1	Yes	CS	5	SB	1
6	16–32	8–12	1	0–1	1	Yes	CS	1	SB	5 m
7	16–32	0–3	1	0–1	1	Yes	Normal	1	SB	4 m
8	16–32	4–7	4	2–3	4	Yes	CS	1	SB	4 m
9	16–32	0–3	6	2–3	1	Yes	CS	2	SB	16
10	N/A	0–3	5	0–1	5	Yes	DVD	1	SB	15
11	43–67	0–3	6	2–3	6	Yes	CS	1	SB	19
12	N/A	0–3	6	4–5	6	No	CS	2	SB	4
13	33–42	4–7	2	0–1	1	Yes	Normal	3	SB	15
14	33–42	0–3	2	0–1	2	No	CS	2	SB	20
15	16–32	8–12	4	2–3	4	Yes	Normal	2	SB	1 m
16	33–42	0–3	2	0–1	2	Yes	CS	0	SB	19
17	43–67	0–3	2	0–1	2	No	CS	1	SB	21
18	33–42	0–3	8	2–3	1	No	Normal	1	SB	19
19	N/A	0–3	7	2–3	6	No	Normal	2	SB	DK
20	43–67	0–3	3	0–1	3	No	CS	1	SB	45
21	33–42	4–7	1	0–1	1	No	Normal	2	SB	12
22	N/A	0–3	5	0–1	5	Yes	Normal	1	SB	13
23	16–32	0–3	5	2–3	5	Yes	CS	1	Alive	3 m
24	43–67	0–3	2	0–1	2	Yes	CS	2	SB	27
25	N/A	0–3	13	0–1	1	Yes	Normal	1	SB	47

Abbreviations: N/A = age group not applicable because the participant did not know her age, CS = Caesarean section, Normal = vaginal delivery, DVD = destructive vaginal delivery, SB = stillbirth, DK = doesn’t know/ remember

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