Strengths of community and health facilities based interventions in improving women and adolescents’ care seeking behaviors as approaches for reducing maternal mortality and improving birth outcome among low income communities of Egypt

Table 2 Impact of Intervention Education Program on ANC, Delivery Care and PNC and their Complications

Characters	Initial Assessment No = 643		Evaluation No = 773		P value
Characters	No	%	No	%	P value
1. Received ANC (one ANC visit or more)	515	80.1%	690	89.3%	.0001**
2. Received natal care	458	71.2%	652	84.5%%	.0001**
3. Received PNC	266	41.4%	409	52.9%	.0001**
4. Exposed to pregnancy complications	245	38.1%	158	15.1%	.0001**
5. Exposed to delivery complications	155	24.1%	101	13.1%	.0001**
6. Exposed to postpartum complications	525	81.7%	54	7.0%	.0001**

☆ Pregnancy complications: complications during pregnancy (anemia, heavy bleeding, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, abortion, ectopic pregnancy, obstructed labor, sepsis, severe abdominal pain, fainting, vomiting, premature rupture of membranes, convulsion, oedema, toxemia, stop movement, or severe headache). Delivery complications: complications during delivery (premature rupture of membranes, bleeding, prolonged labor, abnormal fetal presentation, bad oedor fluid, fever, or contraction > 8 h). Postnatal complications: complications during puerperium (puerperal sepsis, bleeding, convulsions, severe lower abdominal pain, fainting, or general weakness)
* = Sig, ** = highly sig

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