A comparative analysis of teenagers and older pregnant women in the utilization of prevention of mother to child transmission [PMTCT] services in, Western Nigeria

Table 1 Socio-dermographic Characteristics of the Respondents

	Total	Teenage pregnant women	Adult pregnant women	X 2 [p value]
Marital Status
Single	50 [22.2]	27 [48.2]	23 [13.6]	29.14 [p<0.001]
Married	175 [77.8]	29 [51.8]	146 [86.4]
Total	225 [100.0]	56 [100.0]	169 [100.0]
Ethnicity
Yoruba	170 [80.0]	44 [78.6]	127 [75.1]	3.67 [p = 0.3]
Igbo	24 [10.7]	3 [5.4]	21 [12.4]
Hausa	23 [10.3]	8 [14.3]	15 [8.9]
Others	8 [3.1]	1 [1.8]	6 [3.6]
Religion
Christainity	141 [62.7]	23 [41.1]	118 [69.8]	14.86 [p<0.001]
Islam	84 [37.3]	33 [58.9]	51 [30.2]
Level of Education
Nil	19 [8.5]	2 [3.6]	17 [10.1]	21.19 [p<0.001]
Primary	21 [9.4]	11 [19.6]	10 [6.0]
Secondary	110 [49.1]	35 [62.5]	76 [44.6]
Post -Secondary	74 [33.0]	8 [14.3]	66 [39.3]
Occupation
Unemployed	39 [17.3]	11 [19.6]	28 [16.6]	37.42 [p<0.001]
Civil Servants	52 [23.1]	1 [1.8]	51 [30.2]
Traders	55 [24.4]	9 [16.1]	46 [27.2]
Students	48 [21.3]	20 [35.7]	28 [16.6]
Apprentices	31 [13.8]	15 [26.8]	16 [9.5]
Social Class
Low	165 [73.3]	50 [89.3]	115 [68.0]	9.71 [p = 0.008]
High	60 [26.7]	6 [10.7]	54 [31.9]

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