Companionship during facility-based childbirth: results from a mixed-methods study with recently delivered women and providers in Kenya

Table 6 Bivariate distribution of selected birth companionship variables by demographic and facility characteristics, PQCC Study 2016

	Accompanied by Partner			Accompanied by mother-in-law
	No.	%	p-value	No.	%	p-value
Age
15 to 19 years	26	16	***	43	26.5
20 to 29 years	154	30.1		150	29.4
30 to 48 years	73	35.8		52	25.5
Marital Status
Not married	12	6.3	***	21	11.1	***
Currently married	241	35.1		224	32.6
Number of births
1.0	57	19.7	***	67	23.1	*
2.0	70	37.8		62	33.5
3.0	50	30.7		53	32.5
4 or more	76	31.8		63	26.4
Education
No school/Primary	117	23.6	***	150	30.3	*
Post-primary/vocational/Secondary	86	31.7		76	28
College or above	50	45		19	17.1
Literacy
No, cannot write	11	35.5		11	35.5
Yes, but with some difficulty	39	27.7		40	28.4
Yes, Very well	203	28.8		194	27.5
Household wealth
Poorest/poorer	93	24.5	*	135	35.5	***
Middle	40	29.6		33	24.4
Richer/richest	120	33.1		77	21.3
Employed
No	176	26.7	*	177	26.9
Yes	77	35.2		68	31.1
Has Health Insurance
No	175	24.2	***	207	28.7
Yes	78	50.3		38	24.5
Pregnancy complication
No	149	30.2		131	26.5
Yes	104	27.2		114	29.8
Birth Complication
No	204	28.3		202	28
Yes	49	31.4		43	27.6
Past health facility delivery
No	68	19.9	***	83	24.3
Yes	185	34.6		162	30.3
ANC visits
Less than 4	58	20.2	***	85	29.6
4 plus	192	32.8		158	27
Tribe
Luo	176	30.1		114	19.5	***
Kuria	53	25.5		114	54.8
Other	24	28.2		17	20
Religion
Catholic	72	29.8		68	28.1
Protestant/Pentecostal	46	24.1		59	30.9
Seventh Day Adventist	84	31.9		75	28.5
Other Christian	48	28.9		39	23.5
Muslim/other religion	3	20		4	26.7
Delivery facility type
Gov’t Hospital	120	29.7		122	30.2
Gov’t HC/Disp	94	26		96	26.5
Mission/Private facility	39	35.1		27	24.3
Delivery provider
Nurse/Midwife	190	29		188	28.7
Doctor/Clinical Officer	40	29.2		35	25.5
Non-skilled attendant	6	28.6		5	23.8
1plus skilled providers	17	27		17	27
Delivery Provider sex
Male	100	30.4		97	29.5
Female	142	27.6		138	26.8
Both	11	32.4		10	29.4
Total	253	28.8		245	27.9

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