Modelling the number of antenatal care visits in Bangladesh to determine the risk factors for reduced antenatal care attendance.

ABSTRACT: The existence of excess zeros in the distribution of antenatal care (ANC) visits in Bangladesh raises the research question of whether there are two separate generating processes in taking ANC and the frequency of ANC. Thus the main objective of this study is to identify a proper count regression model for the number of ANC visits by pregnant women in Bangladesh covering the issues of overdispersion, zero-inflation, and intra-cluster correlation with an additional objective of determining risk factors for ANC use and its frequency. The data have been extracted from the nationally representative 2014 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, where 22% of the total 4493 women did not take any ANC during pregnancy. Since these zero ANC visits can be either structural or sampling zeros, two-pa

SUBMITTER: Bhowmik KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980537 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature