Quality of antenatal care and associated factors in a rural county in Kenya: an assessment of service provision and experience dimensions

Afulani, Patience A.; Buback, Laura; Essandoh, Francisca; Kinyua, Joyceline; Kirumbi, Leah; Cohen, Craig R.

doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4476-4

Table 5 Multivariate regressions of antenatal care quality measures on various predictors, PQCC 2016/2017

From: Quality of antenatal care and associated factors in a rural county in Kenya: an assessment of service provision and experience dimensions

	Linear regression: Coefficient [95% CI]						Logistic regression: OR [95% CI]
	Experience score			Service provision score			Received an ultrasound
Age
15 to 19 years	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
20 to 29 years	1.72*	[0.088	3.35]	0.47	[-0.0069	0.96]	2.17*	[1.06	4.45]
30 to 48 years	1.78	[-0.35	3.91]	0.67*	[0.034	1.30]	2.92*	[1.21	7.04]
Currently married	2.94	[-4.57	10.5]	1.39	[-0.81	3.59]	0.55	[0.043	6.91]
Number of births
1	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
2	-0.84	[-2.45	0.77]	-0.015	[-0.49	0.46]	1.26	[0.72	2.22]
3	-0.67	[-2.41	1.08]	-0.36	[-0.88	0.16]	0.52	[0.26	1.03]
4 or more	-0.88	[-2.74	0.99]	-0.71*	[-1.26	-0.16]	0.86	[0.43	1.72]
Tribe
Luo	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
Kuria	4.97***	[3.70	6.25]	0.89***	[0.52	1.27]	0.37**	[0.20	0.69]
Other	1.57	[-0.16	3.31]	-0.068	[-0.59	0.45]	1.3	[0.70	2.41]
Literate	1.52*	[0.26	2.79]	0.22	[-0.16	0.60]	1.35	[0.76	2.38]
Employed	2.73***	[1.46	4.00]	0.56**	[0.19	0.93]	1.01	[0.64	1.59]
Participation in household decisions	1.24*	[0.14	2.34]	-0.16	[-0.49	0.17]	1.77*	[1.14	2.75]
Household wealth
Poorest/poorer	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
Middle	0.99	[-0.49	2.47]	0.27	[-0.17	0.71]	1.03	[0.53	2.02]
Richer/richest	0.7	[-0.64	2.04]	0.13	[-0.27	0.53]	2.00**	[1.20	3.33]
Partner’s education
No school/Primary	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
Post-primary/vocational/Secondary	0.16	[-1.21	1.52]	-0.062	[-0.47	0.35]	0.92	[0.52	1.64]
College or above	-0.46	[-2.27	1.36]	0.39	[-0.15	0.93]	2.40**	[1.29	4.46]
No Partner	1.42	[-6.20	9.03]	1.53	[-0.71	3.76]	0.94	[0.072	12.4]
Experienced domestic violence	-2.42***	[-3.51	-1.33]	-0.83***	[-1.15	-0.51]	0.91	[0.60	1.36]
Had severe complications	0.91	[-0.19	2.02]	-0.24	[-0.56	0.088]	1.19	[0.77	1.85]
Timing of first antenatal visit
First trimester	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
Second trimester	-0.17	[-1.32	0.98]	0.16	[-0.19	0.50]	1.18	[0.76	1.81]
Third Trimester	-2.21*	[-4.28	-0.15]	-0.75*	[-1.36	-0.13]	0.82	[0.35	1.93]
Four plus antenatal visits	0.34	[-0.81	1.49]	0.38*	[0.033	0.72]	1.1	[0.70	1.74]
Highest ANC facility
Gov’t Hospital	0	[0	0]	0	[0	0]	1	[1	1]
Gov’t HC/Dispensary	1.99***	[0.84	3.14]	-0.085	[-0.43	0.25]	0.33***	[0.21	0.52]
Mission/Private facility	3.28***	[1.48	5.09]	0.48	[-0.050	1.01]	1.31	[0.76	2.24]
Interviews in the community	-2.41***	[-3.44	-1.38]	-0.55***	[-0.86	-0.24]	1.08	[0.73	1.61]
Constant	20.9***	[13.1	28.6]	9.38***	[7.11	11.7]	0.08	[0.0056	1.16]
N	909			882			993
R-squared	0.179			0.172

95% confidence intervals in brackets * p<0.05 ** p<0.01 *** p<0.001

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