A retrospective study of the impact of health worker strikes on maternal and child health care utilization in western Kenya

Table 1 Characteristics of participants who completed close-ended interview

Characteristic	Strike group (women pregnant in 2017) n = 843	Control group (women pregnant in 2018) n = 728	p-value
% reconsented from parent study	63%	79%	n/a
Mean age, years (SD)	27.0 (5.9)	27.1 (6.2)	0.83
Marital status, married	684 (81%)	606 (83%)	0.74
Employed (formally or informally)	349 (41%)	272 (37%)	0.10
Mean poverty index score (SD) ^a	50.6 (20.0)	48.8 (20.1)	0.07
Health insurance at delivery	120 (15%)	412 (59%)	< 0.01

^a We used the 10-item Poverty Probability Index for Kenya (https://www.povertyindex.org/country/kenya) created by Innovations for Poverty Action (version October 2018) that is based on Kenya’s 2015 Integrated Household Budget Survey

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