Promptness in initiating ANC.
The timing of the first antenatal visit was reported in the household surveys. Of the 2,016 individuals invited to participate in the interviews, 1,952 (96.8%) responded to the survey. Of the 1,952 respondents, 655 were pregnant women, 656 were mothers of children younger than 5 years old, and 641 were adults 50 years or older (At baseline, women in the intervention areas initiated their first ANC visit within a mean ± SD of 3.7 ± 1.6 months of their last menstrual period compared with 3.0 ± 1.4 months in the control area. This pattern was consistent with the greater remoteness of intervention sites. After implementing SGHPs, pregnant women in the intervention areas sought their first ANC visit within 3.2 ± 1.4 months of their last menstrual period compared with 2.8 ± 1.3 in the control areas. The expected delay in initiating the first ANC visit for women in the intervention areas was 3.47 months based on trends in control areas (Delay in seeking first antenatal care (ANC) visit by type of site. posts = second-generation health posts; PW = pregnant women.