Time to antenatal care booking and its predictors among pregnant women in East Africa: a Weibull gamma shared frailty model using a recent demographic and health survey
The median time to ANC booking among pregnant women in East Africa is longer than the new WHO recommendation. Maternal and husband education, high community-level maternal literacy, a better household, community-level wealth index, and previous CS increase the likelihood of an early ANC booking. However, unwanted pregnancy lowers the likelihood of an early ANC booking. Therefore, strengthening systematic efforts to improve women's and their husbands' educational status, encouraging women's education in the community, providing economic support for women with low wealth status and poor communities, encouraging wanted pregnancy, and providing accessible counseling services for women with unwanted pregnancies will help to encourage early ANC booking among pregnant women in East Africa.
Authors
- Yawkal Tsega (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1969-7509)
- Anissa Mohammed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-4269)
- Fekade Demeke Bayou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3437-9392)
- Natnael Kebede (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5734-6289)
- Abiyu Abadi Tareke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9076-5159)
- Abel Endawkie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7613-7079)
- Shimels Derso Kebede (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5416-616X)
- Mastewal Arefaynie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9525-0552)
- Ermias Bekele Enyew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9310-2481)
- Awoke Keleb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7510-3448)
- Chala Daba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4906-9610)
- Eyob Tilahun Abeje
- Lakew Asmare (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0455-9460)
- Kaleab Mesfin Abera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6828-3286)
Institutions
- Wollo University (ET)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Global Women s Health
- Published
- 2024-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1457350
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.11