Examining the impact of WHO’s Focused Antenatal Care policy on early access, underutilisation and quality of antenatal care services in Malawi: a retrospective study

Table 4 Impact of FANC on early access to care: Weibull model with interrupted time series analysis

Variables	Coefficient	Standard error (S.E)
FANC Policy dummy
FANC	−0.370^a	(0.086)
Time trend	0.018	(0.031)
Post FANC x Time Trend	0.207^a	(0.036)
Woman’s education level (base = no educ)
Primary	0.192^a	(0.042)
Secondary	0.363^a	(0.066)
Tertiary	0.463^b	(0.201)
Pregnancy risky indicators
16 years and below	−0.156	(0.141)
Above 40	−0.218^a	(0.074)
Miscarriage	0.108^a	(0.042)
Caesarean deliveries	0.126	(0.077)
Access to radio (Base = no access)
Less than once a week	0.110^b	(0.051)
At least once a week	0.078	(0.055)
Almost every day	0.204^a	(0.044)
Access to television
Less than once a week	−0.186	(0.061)
At least once a week	0.047	(0.109)
Almost every day	0.051	(0.077)
Community type
Urban	0.110^b	(0.046)
Community HIV-test statistics	0.105	(0.089)
Constant	−7.182^a	(0.0125)
Observations	8522
Wald Chi2(1)	299.92^a

Notes: Weibull survival models. ^a1% level of significance; and ^b 5% level of significance. Coefficients with standard errors in parentheses

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