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Table 5 Effect of the intervention on percentage of adolescent pregnancy and birth outcome

From: 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

Indicator+

(8 indicators)

Initial Assessment

No = 643

Evaluation No = 773

Percent

Change

P value

No

%

No

%

1. Current age at most recent birth is < 20 years

85

62%

54

7.0%

−55.0%

.0001**

2. Current age at most recent birth is > 40 years

0

0.0%

1

0.1%

0.1%

.211

3. Pregnancies ended in still births are ≥1

115

17.9%

50

6.4%

−11.5%

.0001**

4. Pregnancies ended in abortion are ≥1

268

41.7%

154

19.9%

−21.8%

.0001**

5. Current pregnancy is unwanted

257

39.9%

194

25.1%

−14.8%

.0001**

6. Most recently delivered babies with low birth weight

44

6.8%

13

1.7%

−5.1%

.0001**

7. Most recently delivered babies are premature

18

2.8%

4

0.5%

−2.3%

.0001**

8. Most recently delivered babies have birth defects

3

0.5%

1

0.1%

−0.4%

.079

  1. + newly married – non pregnant women as well as 1st pregnancy are excluded from the calculation
  2. * = Sig, ** = highly sig