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Table 2 The utilization of maternal health care and maternal mortality rate in 2001 and 2005

From: The evaluation of "Safe Motherhood" program on maternal care utilization in rural western China: a difference in difference approach

Outcomes

2001

2005

Change

 

Intervention

Control

P-value

Intervention

Control

P-value

Intervention

Control

Had a prenatal visit (%,n)

82.6 (2687)

88.7 (6220)

0.001

98.3 (2991)

98.4 (6629)

0.703

19.0

10.9

First prenatal visits (%,n)

        

First trimester

38.9 (1045)

43.6 (2718)

0.001

76.1 (2276)

67.6 (4481)

0.001

95.6

54.7

Second trimester

42.7 (1147)

40.7 (2531)

 

20.5 (613)

27.3 (1810)

 

-52.0

-32.9

Third trimester

18.4 (495)

15.7 (971)

 

3.4(102)

5.1 (338)

 

-81.5

-67.5

Place of prenatal visits(%,n)

        

Home/Village clinic

17.8 (478)

13.6 (845)

0.001

6.3 (189)

6.5 (431)

0.513

-64.6

-52.2

Township hospital

39.6 (1064)

52.2 (3247)

 

62.0 (1854)

60.9 (4037)

 

24.9

14.7

County health facilities

34.6 (930)

28.6 (1779)

 

30.7 (918)

31.8 (2108)

 

-

-

others

8.1 (215)

5.6 (349)

 

1.0 (30)

0.8 (53)

 

-

-

Place of delivery (%,n)

        

Home/Village clinic

67.6 (2199)

40.3 (2896)

0.001

11.5 (350)

8.7 (586)

0.001

-83.0

-78.4

Township hospital

14.7 (478)

31.5 (2209)

 

47.5 (1445)

49.5 (3335)

 

180.7

62.6

County health facilities

16.4 (533)

24.1 (1690)

 

39.8 (1211)

40.9 (2755)

 

-

-

others

1.3 (43)

3.1 (218)

 

1.2 (37)

0.9 (61)

 

-

-

Was mobilized to hospital delivery (%,n)

62.7 (2040)

52.1 (3654)

0.001

94.5 (2876)

88.9 (5989)

0.001

50.7

70.6

Maternal mortality rate (1/100,000, n)

91.8 (37)

90.2 (76)

0.001

59.7 (22)

77.7 (71)

0.001

-34.9

-14.0

  1. Two-sided P values for categorical variables were calculated using Pearson's χ2 test, and MMR were calculated using two-sample test of Poisson distribution.