Association between different types of mass media and antenatal care visits in India: a cross-sectional study from the National Family Health Survey (2015-2016).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To generate evidence for the association between different types of mass media and antenatal care (ANC) visits in India.

Design

A cross-sectional study design, analysing data from India's National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS-4), 2015-2016.

Setting

Rural and urban India.

Participants

From NFHS-4, women who had given birth in the last 5 years before survey administration were included in this study. Women with missing information about their number of ANC visits and their caste were excluded, leaving 187 894 women in the final analytical sample.

Primary outcome measures

Logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the association of ANC utilisation with mass media exposure.

Results

Overall, our study showed that high exposure t

SUBMITTER: Dhawan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745528 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature