Reaching the unreached: effectiveness and satisfaction with community-directed distribution of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for preventing malaria in pregnancy in rural South-East, Nigeria

Table 4 Access to antenatal care and malaria-related characteristics at baseline and in the fourth month of the intervention.

Variable	Baseline	4th month of the intervention	χ² (P-value)
	n= 242	n = 230
	n (%)	n (%)
At least one ANC visit	228 (94.2)	177 (77.0)	28.8 (< 0.001)^a
ITN ownership	192 (79.3)	195 (84.8)	2.36 (0.124)
Slept under ITN a night before the interview	151 (62.4)	194 (84.3)	28.9 (< 0.001)^a
Fever while pregnant	157 (64.9)	39 (17.0)	111.3 (< 0.001)^a

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