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 7 Impact of FANC on quality of ANC services: OLS model with interrupted time series analysis

Variables	Coefficient	Standard error (S.E)
FANC policy dummy
FANC	−0.067^a	(0.020)
Time trend	0.013^b	(0.006)
Post FANC x Time trend	0.008	(0.009)
Woman’s education level (Base = No educ)
Primary	0.042^a	(0.013)
Secondary	0.096^a	(0.018)
Tertiary	0.023	(0.062)
Community type
Urban	0.032^a	(0.011)
HIV-testing prevalence
HIV-test statistics	0.086^a	(0.013)
Pregnancy risk indicators
16 years and below	−0.023	(0.043)
Above 40 years	0.031	(0.024)
Miscarriage	0.001	(0.015)
Caesarean	0.018	(0.023)
Type of health worker
Doctor	0.043^b	(0.020)
Nurse	0.062^a	(0.021)
TBA	−0.324^a	(0.033)
Ward attendant/ health surveillance assistants	−0.002	(0.023)
Constant	0.632^a	(0.027)
Observations	1606
R-Squared	0.2252

NOTES: Ordinary Least Squares regressions. ^asignificant at 1% level of significance; and ^b significant at 5% level of significance. Coefficients with standard errors in parentheses

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