Fig 1.
CONSORT flow chart.
Fig 2.
Forms of advertisement used for Antenatal Care (ANC) and portable Obstetric Ultrasound (pOBU) in control and intervention arms.
WOM = word of mouth. rANC = radio advertisement of ANC, the radio message was, “there will be a free clinic for pregnant women at X community on X day, all tests and treatment will be provided free of charge”. rOBU = radio advertisement of portable obstetric ultrasound, the radio message was, “there will be a free clinic for pregnant women at X community on X day, all tests and treatment will be provided free of charge. Free ultrasound will also be offered at the clinic, if you come “you will be able to see a picture of your baby” and was delivered in both English and Ruchiga (the local dialect).
Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of women from the Uganda pOBU trial in the overall sample and in each of the intervention arms.
Table 2.
Rates of Antenatal Clinic (ANC) attendance, attending an ANC clinic for the first time in current pregnancy, attending ANC after having seen a traditional healer/birth attendant, and attending ANC because of pOBU.
Table 3.
Rate ratios of primary and secondary outcomes between arms.