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Table 4 Preventive practices among pregnant women who were pregnant during the intervention or have been pregnant before.

From: Peer education: The effects on knowledge of pregnancy related malaria and preventive practices in women of reproductive age in Edo State, Nigeria

 

N

%

Visiting antenatal care provider

(multiple answers possible) (Ntot = 645)

  

   Doctor

388

60.2

   Nurse/midwife

478

74.1

   CHW

36

5.6

   Traditional birth attendant

26

4.0

   Other care provider

4

06

   Total: Any care provider

630

97.7

   No

15

2.3

Number of participants sleeping

under net during pregnancy (N tot = 636)

  

   Yes

74

11.6

   No

562

88.4

Preventative medication during pregnancy

(multiple answers possible) (N tot = 624)

  

   Yes, from the hospital

446

71.5

   Yes, from the pharmacy

157

25.2

   Yes, from a traditional birth attendant

25

4.0

   Yes, elsewhere

5

0.8

   Total: Yes, from any source

481

77.1

   No

143

22.9

Medicines used to prevent malaria

  

   SP/Fansidar®

65

11.8

   Chloroquine

160

29.0

   Pyrimethamine (Daraprim®)

102

21.8

   Other (non malaria drugs)

31

5.6

   Can't remember

192

34.9