Implementing community-based perinatal care: results from a pilot study in rural Pakistan
Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Zahid A Memon, Sajid Soofi, Muhammad Suhail Salat, Simon Cousens, Jose Martines
Volume 86, Number 6, June 2008, 452-459
Table 3. Perinatal care and care provision reported after the intervention in randomly selected intervention and control villages
| Characteristics | Sample of intervention village clusters (N = 395) |
Sample of control village clusters (N = 375) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Antenatal check-up during last pregnancy | 313 | 79.2 | 247 | 65.9 | |
| Proportion who received maternal and newborn health information during pregnancy | 334 | 84.6 | 93 | 24.8 | |
| Main source of maternal and newborn health information during last pregnancy (out of 334 and 93 in intervention and control villages, respectively) | |||||
| LHW | 288 | 86.2 | 33 | 35.5 | |
| Dai | 10 | 3.0 | 10 | 10.8 | |
| Doctor | 18 | 5.4 | 43 | 46.3 | |
| Domiciliary visit by LHW during the last pregnancy | 273 | 69.1 | 21 | 28.4 | |
| Receipt of tetanus toxoid during pregnancy | 310 | 78.5 | 246 | 65.6 | |
| Procurement of clean delivery kit before delivery | 249 | 63.0 | 5 | 1.3 | |
| Delivery in government health facility | 121 | 30.6 | 48 | 12.8 | |
| Presence of LHW during delivery | 21 | 5.3 | 3 | 1.4 | |
| Application of traditional materials to the cord | 176 | 44.6 | 300 | 80.0 | |
| Bathing the baby within 6 hours of birth | 198 | 50.1 | 113 | 30.1 | |
| Colostrum administration | 299 | 75.7 | 149 | 39.7 | |
| Breastfeeding within an hour of birth | 261 | 66.1 | 79 | 21.1 | |
| Exclusive breastfeeding for first 4 months | 190 | 48.1 | 117 | 31.2 | |
| Postnatal visit by LHW in the week after birth | 113 | 64.6 | 39 | 18.1 | |
| Newborn examination within the first 48 hours after birth | 64 | 56.0 | 15 | 38.5 | |
| Support received during pregnancy from the community health committee | 150 | 38.0 | 19 | 5.1 | |
LHW, lady health worker.