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Table 1 Participants characteristics by mobility for birth attendance among 450 women residing in 6 island fishing communities in Uganda

From: Mobility for maternal health among women in hard-to-reach fishing communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda; a community-based cross-sectional survey

Characteristic

Total (%)

Mobility for skilled birth (%)

p-value

  

No mobility

Yes, moved

 

All women

450

185 (41.1)

265 (58.9)

 

Age; range (median) years

15–45 (27)

15–45 (29)

16–43 (26)

 

Age groups

   

< 0.05

  25–49

287 (63.8)

137 (74.0)

150 (56.6)

 

  15–24

163 (36.2)

48 (26.0)

115 (43.4)

 

Duration of community stay

   

< 0.05

  > 5 years

118 (26.2)

63 (34.0)

55 (20.7)

 

  ≤ 5 years

332 (73.8)

122 (66.0)

210 (79.3)

 

Religion

   

0.35

  Muslim

95 (21.1)

42 (22.7)

53 (20.0)

 

  Catholic

191 (42.4)

71 (38.4)

120 (45.3)

 

  Others

164 (36.4)

72 (38.9)

92 (34.7)

 

Highest education (Years)

   

0.03

  ≥ 8

133 (29.6)

44 (23.8)

89 (33.6)

 

  1–7

285 (63.3)

123 (66.5)

162 (61.1)

 

  0

32 (7.1)

18 (9.7)

14 (5.3)

 

Lifetime births

   

< 0.05

  Over one

331 (73.6)

159 (85.9)

172 (64.9)

 

  Up to one

119 (26.4)

26 (14.1)

93 (35.1)

 

Community public health facility

   

0.21

  Present

379 (84.2)

151 (81.6)

228 (86.0)

 

  Absent

71 (15.8)

34 (18.4)

37 (14.0)

 

Pregnancy planned

   

0.06

  No

72 (34.3)

30 (42.9)

42 (30.0)

 

  Yes

138 (65.7)

40 (57.1)

98 (70.0)

 

Ever lost pregnancy

   

0.94

  No

252 (56.0)

104 (56.2)

148 (55.8)

 

  Yes

198 (44.0)

81 (43.8)

117 (44.2)

 

ANCx4 attendance

   

0.04

  Yes

137 (30.4)

66 (35.7)

71 (26.8)

 

  No

313 (69.6)

119 (64.3)

194 (73.2)

 

All seven ANC components receipt

   

0.90

  No

393 (87.3)

162 (87.6)

231 (87.2)

 

  Yes

57 (12.7)

23 (12.4)

34 (12.8)

 

Most recent birth attendance

   

< 0.05

  Unskilled

59 (13.1)

51 (27.6)

8 (3.0)

 

  Skilled

391 (86.9)

134 (72.4)

257 (97.0)

 

Birth facility

   

< 0.05

  Private

126 (28.0)

36 (19.4)

90 (34.0)

 

  Government Hospital

109 (24.2)

0 (0.0)

109 (41.1)

 

  Government Health Centre

154 (34.2)

93 (50.3)

61 (23.0)

 

  Home

51 (11.3)

46 (24.9)

5 (1.9)

 

  TBA

10 (2.2)

10 (5.4)

0 (0.0)

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