Effect of completing eight or more antenatal care contacts on adverse pregnancy outcomes in a district hospital in Ghana: A propensity score–matched and doubly robust analysis

Abstract

This study demonstrated that completing ≥8 ANC contacts was consistently associated with lower odds of LBW and PTB among this cohort of pregnant women. This finding adds to the limited empirical evidence from LMICs on the implementation of the WHO eight-contact ANC model, suggesting that higher ANC contacts in a similar resource-constrained setting may be associated with improved maternal and infant outcomes.