Similarly, studies from Timor-Leste [54] and Kenya [57] showed that there is no significant improvement of ANC four or more visit among women who were in the intervention group compared to control group. For skilled birth attendance, studies from Zanzibar [57], Kenya [42], India [50], ...
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This finding is consistent with the studies done in Kenya and Bangladesh [58, 59]. Similarly, nutrition education for pregnant women is thought to influence nutrition-related knowledge and dietary behavior, pregnancy weight gain, and birthweight, according to a study by Zeng L. et al. [60]....
This proportion is higher than that in a study conducted in Kenya which showed that 20% of women reported any form of disrespect and abuse during child birth [19]. The considerable difference may be due to socio-cultural and socio-economic. It may also be due to differences in staff ...
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High levels of education among women have also been associated with increased birth preparedness practices in Ethiopia [14, 17] and Kenya [16]. General programmes promoting education of the girl child such as universal secondary education currently being implemented in Uganda [28] would go a long...
We also thank our clinical officers, medical officers, data entry and field staff involved in the project. We are particularly grateful to the mothers for their participation in this study. This manuscript has been approved for publication by the Director of the Kenya Medical Research Institute. ...