Sociocultural Determinants of the Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in the Tallensi District in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Table 6

Reasons for women’s use of MHCS.

STATEMENT	SD-2	D-1	U0	A1	SA2	Mean ()	Std. Dev.
Attitude of health staff	36	34	33	96	67	0.47	0.0933
Knowledge on the need for maternal health care	25	51	12	56	173	0.95	0.214
Need for good health	14	38	7	133	121	0.98	0.200
Free maternal health care	22	35	14	68	162	1.04	0.201
Quality of health care service	44	45	57	108	54	0.26	0.088
Nearness of health center	42	53	16	110	81	0.45	0.119
Available health professional	101	52	21	96	34	-0.29	0.118
Availability of health care service	37	48	37	51	126	0.61	0.123
Cost of maternal health service	67	130	11	30	59	-0.39	0.148
Total average ()						0.45

Source: Authors’ Field Work, December, 2016.