Effectiveness of pregnant women’s active participation in their antenatal care for the control of malaria and anaemia in pregnancy in Ghana: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Malaria Journal

Table 6 Intervention effect on anaemia, malaria parasitaemia, low birth weight and sub optimal pregnancy outcomes

	Clusters	Risk (%)	95% confidence interval	Unadjusted risk ratio	95% confidence interval	p-value	Adjusted risk ratio^a	95% confidence interval	p-value
Anaemia at 4–8 weeks after enrolment
Control	7	48.39	33.33–70.00
Intervention	7	48.04	36.74–62.63	0.99	0.73–1.34	0.96	0.97	0.78–1.22	0.79
Anaemia prior to delivery
Control	7	50.25	22.73–78.95
Intervention	7	47.40	20.41–65.38	0.94	0.60–1.49	0.78	0.92	0.63–1.34	0.62
Malaria at 4–8 weeks after enrolment
Control	7	6.43	1.67–12.82
Intervention	7	6.73	2.60–11.50	1.05	0.58–1.89	0.86	1.17	0.68–2.04	0.51
Malaria prior to delivery
Control	7	5.91	0.00–15.00
Intervention	7	4.34	0.00–7.690	0.73	0.24–2.26	0.59	0.83	0.27–2.57	0.73
Low birth weight
Control	7	13.18	5.41–31.48
Intervention	7	10.81	2.44–19.74	0.82	0.38–1.78	0.59	0.93	0.44–1.97	0.84
Suboptimal pregnancy outcome
Control	7	8.35	0.00–39.22
Intervention	7	6.32	0.00–10.53	0.76	0.16–3.48	0.72	0.77	0.17–3.52	0.73

^aRisk ratios adjusted for baseline parasitaemia, anaemia, gestation at enrolment, age, educational level, ITN use, IPT-SP served and parity