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 3 Care seeking behavior indicators during antenatal, natal, and postnatal periods

10 ANC, Delivery Care and PNC Indicators☆	Initial Assessment No = 643		Evaluation No = 773		Percent Change	P value
10 ANC, Delivery Care and PNC Indicators☆	No	%	No	%	Percent Change	P value
1. ANC received at facility	3	0.6% Out of 515	409	59.3% Out of 690	61.8%	.0001**
2. Less than 4 ANC received at facility	512	99.4% Out of 515	246	35.6% Out of 690	−61.8%	.0001**
3. At least one ANC received at home by skilled providers	0	0.0% Out of 515	35	5.1% Out of 690	−5.1%	.0001**
4. Delivery attended at home by non-skilled providers	185	28.8% Out of 458	121	15.7% Out of 652	−13.1%	.0001**
5. Delivery attended at home by skilled providers	91	14.1% Out of 458	193	25% Out of 652	10.9%	.0001**
6. Delivery attended at facility	367	57.1% Out of 458	459	59.3% Out of 652	2.2%	0.232
7. Postnatal care received at home by non-skilled providers	111	41.7% Out of 266	67	16.4% Out of 409	−25.3%	.0001**
8. Postnatal care received at home by skilled providers	16	6.0% Out of 266	101	24.7% Out of 409	18.7%	.0001**
9. Postnatal care received at facility	139	52.3% Out of 266	241	58.9% Out of 409	6.6%	.046*
10. Ever used at least one modern FP method	395	61.4% Out of 643	575	74.4% Out of 773	13%	.0001**

☆ Antenatal care: Mothers receiving proper ANC visits (4 visits or more) during pregnancy by skilled/trained providers at health facility and/or trained Raedat at home or as outreach by trained nurses. Natal care: All deliveries by a skilled/trained physicians or nurses or birth attendant either at institutional hospital or at home. Postnatal care: Proper care of the mother and baby in the first 6 weeks (40 days) after childbirth by skilled/trained providers at health facility or at home. First postnatal contact should be as early as possible within 24 h of birth and at least three additional postnatal contacts are recommended for all mothers and newborns, on day 3 (48–72 h) and between days 7–14 after birth, and 6 weeks after birth [5].
* = Sig, ** = highly sig

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