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Table 1 Maternal characteristics during pregnancy, Salavan Province, Laos, 2014

From: Prevalence of malaria in pregnancy in southern Laos: a cross-sectional survey

 

Community survey N = 205

Hospital survey N = 331

n (%) or mean (95 % CI)

Maternal age (years)

24.9 (24.0–25.7)

25.0 (24.4–25.7)

Gravidity

 G1–G2

122 (59.5)

220 (66.5)

 G3+

83 (40.5)

111 (33.5)

Ethnicity

 Lao Loum

204 (99.5)

266 (80.4)

 Lao Theung

1 (0.5)

65 (19.6)

Place of living/delivery

 Vapi

205 (100.0)

44 (13.3)

 Toumlan

 

40 (11.8)

 Salavan

 

248 (74.9)

Educationa

 

NA

 No formal education

25 (12.8)

 

 Primary school

103 (52.5)

 

 Secondary school or higher

68 (34.7)

 

Number of ANC visits during this pregnancy

1.4 (1.1–1.6)

3.8 (3.6–4.1)

Iron supplementationa

103 (50.2)

310/330 (93.9)

Folic acid supplementationa

0 (100.0)

258/327 (78.9)

Gestational hypertensiona

1/204 (0.5)

11 (3.3)

Tobacco use

NA

38 (11.5)

Went to the forest during the current pregnancy

170 (82.9)

141 (42.6)

Bed net possession

204 (99.5)

307 (92.8)

Bed net use the night before the survey/admission

204 (99.5)

305 (92.1)

Any malaria episode during pregnancya

17/204 (8.3)

7/330 (2.1)

Gestational age (weeks of gestation)a

23 (22–25)

38 (38-38)

Maternal Hb level (g/dL)a

10.8 (10.6–11.0)

11.4 (11.3–11.6)

Maternal anaemia (Hb < 11 g/dL)a

106 (51.7)

112/327 (34.3)

  1. ANC antenatal care, Hb haemoglobin
  2. aN = 331 women at delivery, N = 205 during pregnancy, or indicated otherwise. Blood pressure was not recorded for one woman (community-level survey), history of malaria could not be determined in two women (one during the community-level survey and one during the facility-level survey), education level was not recorded in nine women who were recruited in the first three investigated villages in Vapi District, iron and folic acid supplementation could not been determined in, respectively, one and four women during the facility-level survey, and Hb level could not be measured in four women in Toumlane District Hospital because of a defective device