Non-poor mothers from Tamil Nadu or Maharashtra, living in urban areas, with above primary education and literate husband, with low parity and some exposure to mass media were more likely to receive prenatal care than their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh.
During descriptive analysis, six levels of education were recognised: illiterate, just literate, primary, secondary, intermediate, bachelor and above.
The participants of the interviews read each item and rated the items with regard to comprehensibility and item relevance in regard to health literate primary care practices using two probing questions per item.
This pretest of all communication items used in both instruments resulted in the selection of 4 items for the HLPC found to be easy to understand and very important for a health literate primary care practice.
For this purpose, the participants were asked to report all their thoughts after reading each item, especially concerning item comprehensibility and judge the importance of each item on a 5-point Likert scale from "1 = not important" to 5 = very important" for a health literate primary care practice in regard to interpersonal communication and navigation assistance.
"I mean literally literate".
However, other variables like, other than Muslim and Hindu religion, caste, women and her partner's education (literate but below primary, primary but below middle), number of sons less than daughters and if previous birth interval was 24 36 months were not found to be statistically significant.
Women's education was categorized into illiterate, literate upto primary, secondary and higher secondary and above.
Notably, 65% of our sample were married, 65% had completed primary school (all respondents were literate), and equal numbers were men and women.
This multicentre study will be conducted in the different WHO regions and patients with OBPI who are literate in the primary language of the study site will be consecutively included in the study.
