Effects of an mHealth voice message service (mMitra) on maternal health knowledge and practices of low-income women in India: findings from a pseudo-randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Socio-demographic Characteristics of Intervention and Control Groups at Time 2

Variable	Intervention N (%)	Control N (%)	P Value
Number of women	1113	402
Variable
Median age of women	25 (SD 3.9)	24 (SD 4.1)	0.001*
Women’s age < 25 years	60.7	64.2	0.2161
First time pregnant	30.5	31.8	0.6286
Women’s education > 10 years	39.4	42.8	0.2336
Woman employed	15.5	10.0	0.0065*
Living as Nuclear family	51.8	49.0	0.3358
Has older woman living in the house	41.1	44.5	0.2365
Belong to SC/ ST ¹ group	18.1	17.2	0.6864
Watches TV	85.6	80.3	0.0125*
Listens to radio	15.4	11.2	0.0391*
Woman owns mobile phone	87.6	81.1	0.0013*
Reads newspaper	35.7	31.0	0.0892
Husband literate	81.1	84.8	0.0973
Husband employed	98.4	97.8	0.4328

*p < 0.05, ¹Schedule castes (SC) and Schedule Tribes (ST) are a set of communities identified in Indian constitution as being socially disadvantaged and therefore needing special development assistance

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