Maternal health care utilization and the obstetric outcomes of undocumented women in Finland – a retrospective register-based study

Table 2 Prenatal care utilization (N = 62)

	n (%)
Prenatal care provider
Public maternity clinic	50 (81)
Voluntary clinic for undocumented migrants, Global Clinic (GC)	2 (3)
Partly a maternity clinic and GC	6 (10)
No prenatal care	4 (6)
Prenatal visit before arrival to Finland^a
Yes	10 (19)
No	44 (81)
Reason for ending prenatal care ^a,b
Yes	21 (35)
Moved out of Finland	9 (15)
Prenatal care continues at a private clinic or in another city	5 (8)
Care denied	3 (5)
Unknown reason	4 (7)
No	39 (65)
First prenatal visit ^a
1. trimester	22 (39)
2. trimester	19 (34)
3. trimester	15 (27)
Number of prenatal visits
0–3	25 (40)
4–7	19 (31)
8–10	12 (19)
≥ 11	6 (10)
Number of missed prenatal visits ^a
0	38 (70)
1	7 (13)
2	5 (9)
3	4 (8)
Use of interpreter during prenatal visit ^a
Family member	15 (25)
Professional interpreter ^c	15 (25)
Both family member and professional interpreter	8 (13)
Interpreted not needed	19 (32)
Interpreter not used	3 (5)

^a Missing data excluded
^b Two of the study population women were still pregnant during the data collection
^c Including translation via phone