Research Article

Pregnant and Postpartum Women’s Experiences and Perspectives on the Acceptability and Feasibility of Copackaged Medicine for Antenatal Care and PMTCT in Lesotho

Table 1

Characteristics of study participants.

Structured interview (SI) participants Semistructured interview (SSI) participantsTotal

Total (%)523204727

Continuous variable
Mean (SD)Mean (SD)Mean (SD)

Age522201723
26.6 (6.3)26.5 (6.0)26.6 (6.2)
Gravida520203723
2.1 (1.3)2.3 (1.4)2.2 (1.3)

Categorical variable (%) (%) (%)

Districts
 Qacha’s Nek26 (5.0)36 (17.7)62 (8.5)
 Mafeteng125 (23.9)43 (21.0)168 (23.1)
 Butha Buthe51 (9.8)31 (15.2)82 (11.3)
 Berea173 (33.1)35 (17.2)208 (28.6)
 Mohale’s Hoek86 (16.4)35 (17.2)121 (16.6)
 Mokhotlong62 (11.9) 24 (11.8)86 (11.8)
Status/regimen
 HIV-negative 223 (43.1)67 (33.7)290 (40.5)
 HIV-positive/prophylaxis152 (29.4)72 (36.2)224 (31.3)
 HIV-positive/ART142 (27.5)60 (30.2)202 (28.2)
 HIV-positive/unknown regimen6511
Visit
 ANC262 (50.1)86 (42.2)348 (47.9)
 PNC261 (49.9)118 (57.8)379 (52.1)
ANC visit pack received
 1st456 (87.7)174 (85.3)630 (87.0)
 2nd48 (9.2)20 (9.8)68 (9.4)
 3rd7 (1.3)2 (1.0)9 (1.2)
 ≥4th1 (0.2)0 (0)1 (0.1)
 Did not receive pack8 (1.5) 8 (3.9) 16 (2.2)
 Unknown303
Number of ANC visits (PNC only)
 19 (3.8)5 (4.6)14 (4.0)
 232 (13.4)13 (11.9)45 (12.9)
 361 (25.5)32 (29.4)93 (26.7)
 469 (28.9)28 (25.7)97 (27.9)
 >468 (28.5)31 (28.4)99 (28.4)
 Unknown19928
 Did not attend ANC303

Excluded from the percentage calculation.