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BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-04794-w
Keywords
Antenatal care; BDHS; Count model; Dropout; Marginalized; Mixture
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The study found that dropout from school is associated with lower attendance of ANC visits among women in Bangladesh. To ensure an adequate number of ANC visits for pregnant women, it is important to promote maternal education and prevent dropout after marriage.
Background There exists a lack of research in explaining the link between dropout from school and antenatal care (ANC) visits of women during pregnancy in Bangladesh. The aim of this study is to investigate how the drop out from school influences the ANC visits after controlling the relevant covariates using an appropriate count regression model. Methods The association between the explanatory variables and the outcome of interest, ANC visits, have been performed using one-way analysis of variance/independent sample t-test. To examine the adjusted effects of covariates on the marginal mean of count data, Marginalized Poison-Poisson mixture regression model has been fitted. Results The estimated incidence rate of antenatal care visits was 10.6% lower for the mothers who were not continued their education after marriage but had at least 10 years of schooling (p-value <0.01) and 20.2% lower for the drop-outed mothers (p-value <0.01) than the mothers who got continued their education after marriage. Conclusions To ensure the WHO recommended 8+ ANC visits for the pregnant women of Bangladesh, it is essential to promote maternal education so that at least ten years of schooling should be completed by a woman and dropout from school after marriage should be prevented.
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