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 6 Services received during antenatal care visit

Variable categories	Proportion of women		p-value
Variable categories	Pre-FANC	Post-FANC	p-value
Weighed during pregnancy	0.96	0.95	0.2396
Blood pressure checked during pregnancy	0.79	0.79	0.4546
Urine sample taken during pregnancy	0.20	0.22	0.0638^*
Blood sample taken during pregnancy	0.37	0.47	0.0000^***
Told about complications	0.69	0.72	0.0032^***
Given or instructed to go buy iron tablets	0.77	0.84	0.0000^***
Took Fansidar as prophylaxis for malaria	0.76	0.84	0.0000^***
Received at least one tetanus injection	0.83	0.83	0.3319
Received all eight	0.09	0.11	0.0002^***

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