Table 2

Descriptive characteristics of women who received care at intervention and control hospitals

	Control hospital N=8378		Intervention hospital N=9740		P value
	n/mean	% (SD)	n/mean	% (SD)	P value
Age of mother	30.29	5.29	29.07	5.62	<0.0001
Parity	1.85	1.62	2.27	1.77	<0.0001
Gravidity	3.56	2.03	3.29	2.03	<0.0001
Primary postpartum haemorrhage					<0.0001
Yes	347	4.14	210	2.14
No	8032	95.86	9592	97.86
Antenatal care					<0.0001
No	1507	17.99	2296	23.42
Yes	6871	82.01	7506	76.58
Education level					<0.0001
No education	39	0.47	2782	28.38
Arabic education	189	2.26	59	0.6
Primary	814	9.72	572	5.84
Secondary	4883	58.28	3933	40.12
Tertiary	2453	29.28	2456	25.06
Referred to the hospital					0.001
Yes	287	3.43	429	4.38
No	8091	96.57	9373	95.62
Residence					<0.0001
Urban	7271	86.79	8873	90.52
Rural	1107	13.21	929	9.48
Marital status					<0.0001
Never married	235	2.8	78	0.8
Married	8140	97.16	9721	99.17
Widow	3	0.04	3	0.03
Number of babies					0.0049
Singleton	8149	97.27	9457	96.48
Twin	222	2.65	339	3.46
Triplet	6	0.07	5	0.05
Occupation					<0.0001
Unemployed	2311	27.58	4651	47.45
Employed	6067	72.42	5151	52.55