{"title":"Attrition Rate of Follow up Attendance in a Western Nigerian Fetal Malnutrition Study","authors":"O. Adebami, J. Owa, G. Oyedeji","doi":"10.5580/23ac","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Results: Of the 473 studied and expected to be followed up, 89 [18.8%] had FM. Three hundred and fifteen (66.6%) and 249 (52.6%) were the attendance in the follow up clinic at the first and fourth weeks respectively. The two hundred and twenty four (47.4%) lost to follow up at the 4th week examined in relation to the factors listed under methodology. Attrition rate at the 4 weeks follow up was higher among the mothers who had no antenatal care compared with those who did","PeriodicalId":339404,"journal":{"name":"The Internet Journal of Nutrition and Wellness","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet Journal of Nutrition and Wellness","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/23ac","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Results: Of the 473 studied and expected to be followed up, 89 [18.8%] had FM. Three hundred and fifteen (66.6%) and 249 (52.6%) were the attendance in the follow up clinic at the first and fourth weeks respectively. The two hundred and twenty four (47.4%) lost to follow up at the 4th week examined in relation to the factors listed under methodology. Attrition rate at the 4 weeks follow up was higher among the mothers who had no antenatal care compared with those who did