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Table 5 Impact of FANC on underutilisation of ANC services: OLS model with interrupted time series analysis

From: 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

Variables

Coefficient

Standard error (S.E)

FANC Policy dummy

 FANC

0.034

(0.046)

 Time trend

−0.028b

(0.014)

 Post FANC x Time Trend

0.083a

(0.021)

Woman’s education level (Base = No Educ)

 Primary

0.016

(0.031)

 Secondary

0.068

(0.044)

 Tertiary

0.106

(0.144)

Media access (Base = No access)

 Radio

  Less than once a week

−0.081c

(0.042)

  At least once a week

−0.103b

(0.044)

  Almost every day

−0.038

(0.034)

Location

 Urban

−0.025

(0.027)

HIV_test

−0.038

(0.031)

Television

Yes

 

Pregnancy risky indicators

Yes

 

Constant

0.119b

(0.046)

Observations

1606

 

R-squared

0.0406

 
  1. Notes: Ordinary Least Squares Regression. a1% level of significance; b 5% level of significance and c10% level of significance. Coefficients with standard errors are in parenthesis