Characteristics | Control (N=18) | Intervention (N=16) | P value |
Subcentres (no. (%)) | 14 (77.8) | 5 (31.3) | 0.006 |
Primary health centre (no. (%)) | 0 | 0 | – |
Distance from primary health centre (km) (mean (SD)) | 11.5 (9.9) | 17.1 (12.7) | 0.166 |
Distance from base hospital (km) (mean (SD)) | 31.1 (14.9) | 30.7 (20.0) | 0.958 |
Distance from subdistrict hospital (km) (mean (SD)) | 29.1 (14.1) | 33.7 (16.1) | 0.393 |
Village council (no. (%)) | 8 (44.4) | 3 (18.8) | 0.109 |
Emergency health facilities (no. (%)) | 8 (44.4) | 3 (18.8) | 0.109 |
ANM workers (no. (%)) | 9 (50.0) | 5 (31.3) | 0.268 |
ASHA workers (no. (%)) | 2 (11.1) | 0 | 0.169 |
Anganwadi workers (no. (%)) | 17 (94.4) | 15 (93.8) | 0.999 |
Major source of water in the village (no. (%)) | |||
Well | 5 (27.8) | 5 (33.3) | 0.693 |
Hand pump | 7 (38.9) | 7 (46.7) | |
Others* | 6 (33.3) | 3 (20.0) | |
Road facility (no. (%)) | |||
Tar | 8 (44.4) | 4 (25.0) | 0.106 |
Dirt | 7 (38.9) | 12 (75.0) | |
Government transport facility present (no. (%)) | 11 (61.1) | 4 (25.0) | 0.034 |
Private transport facility present (no. (%)) | 15 (83.3) | 10 (62.5) | 0.169 |
Mobile/telephone connectivity present (no. (%)) | 10 (55.6) | 8 (50.0) | 0.746 |
Anganwadi present (no. (%)) | 15 (83.3) | 15 (93.8) | 0.347 |
Bold p values indicate statistical significance.
*Tap, pond and river.
anganwadi worker, grassroot worker of the integrated child development scheme covering food supplementation to under-five children and preschool education; ANM, auxiliary nurse midwife trained for two academic sessions to conduct deliveries and minor ailments like oral rehydration solution for diarrhoea, deworming and routine immunisation; ASHA, Accredited Social Health Worker placed in every village who assist ANM’s for management of deliveries and referral of high-risk mothers and children.