Characteristics | Women with first birth SVD (n = 4367) | Women with first birth CD (n = 1581) | P-value | ||
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n | % | n | % | ||
Age [Mean, SD] | [28.3, 5.4] | [28.3, 5.4] | |||
Maternal Age | |||||
15–19 | 163 | 3.7 | 63 | 4.0 | 0.822 |
20–29 | 2483 | 56.9 | 911 | 57.6 | |
30–39 | 1617 | 37.0 | 574 | 36.3 | |
≥40 | 104 | 2.4 | 33 | 2.1 | |
Education | |||||
None formal | 64 | 1.5 | 27 | 1.7 | 0.685 |
Primary education | 1844 | 42.2 | 689 | 43.6 | |
Secondary education | 1126 | 25.8 | 398 | 25.2 | |
Higher education | 1333 | 30.5 | 467 | 29.5 | |
Religion | |||||
Christian | 3476 | 79.6 | 1243 | 78.6 | 0.604 |
Muslim | 865 | 19.8 | 326 | 20.6 | |
Others | 26 | 0.6 | 12 | 0.8 | |
Occupation | |||||
Housewife | 517 | 11.8 | 186 | 11.8 | 0.444 |
Farmer | 650 | 14.9 | 209 | 13.2 | |
Business | 1454 | 33.3 | 554 | 35.0 | |
Employed | 1376 | 31.5 | 490 | 31.0 | |
Others e.g. students, retired | 370 | 8.5 | 142 | 9.0 | |
Residency | |||||
Urban | 2584 | 59.2 | 937 | 59.3 | 0.947 |
Rural | 1783 | 40.8 | 644 | 40.7 | |
Tribe | |||||
Chagga | 2242 | 51.3 | 793 | 50.2 | 0.857 |
Pare | 527 | 12.1 | 200 | 12.7 | |
Maasai | 93 | 2.1 | 35 | 2.2 | |
Others | 1505 | 34.5 | 553 | 35.0 | |
Booking BMI (kg/m2) | |||||
Underweight | 131 | 3.0 | 70 | 4.4 | < 0.0001 |
Normal | 2058 | 47.1 | 649 | 41.0 | |
Overweight | 1762 | 40.3 | 653 | 41.3 | |
Obesity | 416 | 9.5 | 209 | 13.2 | |
[Mean, SD] | [24.7, 3.5] | [25.3, 4.4] | |||
ANC visit | |||||
≥4 | 2882 | 66.0 | 1057 | 66.9 | 0.535 |
4 | 1485 | 34.0 | 524 | 33.1 | |
Gestation age at delivery | |||||
28–32 | 130 | 3.0 | 49 | 3.1 | 0.047 |
33–36 | 829 | 19.0 | 345 | 21.8 | |
≥37 | 3408 | 78.0 | 1187 | 75.1 | |
[Mean, SD] | [37.9, 2.3] | [37.8, 2.3] | |||
Inter-pregnancy Interval | |||||
< 24 months | 15 | 0.3 | 7 | 0.4 | < 0.0001 |
24–36 months | 1200 | 27.5 | 338 | 21.4 | |
37–60 months | 2423 | 55.5 | 987 | 62.4 | |
> 60 months | 729 | 16.7 | 249 | 15.7 | |
Referral | |||||
Home | 3508 | 80.3 | 1227 | 77.6 | 0.566 |
District hospital | 707 | 16.2 | 289 | 18.3 | |
Regional hospital | 152 | 3.5 | 65 | 4.1 |