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Table 1 Predictors of knowledge of exclusive breastfeeding among 388 new antenatal attendees, Mbale, Uganda; logistic regression results

From: Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees

Participants' characteristics

Number, n (%)

Exclusive breastfeeding knowledge

  

Unadjusted OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR (95% CI)

Age groups (years)

   

15-24

220 (56.7)

1.0

1.0

25 or more

168 (43.3)

1.1 (0.7-1.7)

1.5 (0.8-2.5)

Place of residence

   

Rural

252 (64.9)

1.0

 

Urban

136 (35.1)

1.5 (0.9-2.3)

1.4 (0.9-2.3)

Marital status

   

Single/divorced/separated

35 (9.0)

1.0

 

Married/cohabiting

353 (91.0)

1.4 (0.7-2.8)

 

Occupation

   

Not getting a salary

337 (86.9)

1.0

1.0

Salaried

51 (13.1)

2.6 (1.2-5.6)

1.9 (0.8-4.5)

Education level

   

None or incomplete primary

134 (34.5)

1.0

1.0

Completed primary

152 (39.2)

1.5 (0.9-2.4)

1.6 (1.0-2.7)

Completed secondary or more

102 (26.3)

2.5 (1.4-4.5)

2.5 (1.3-4.9)

Religion

   

Christian

234 (60.3)

1.0

 

Muslim

154 (39.7)

1.2 (0.8-1-9)

 

Number of pregnancies

   

1-2

201 (51.8)

1.0

1.0

3 or more

187 (48.2)

1.5 (1.0-2.3)

2.5 (1.4-4.5)

Socio-economic status

   

Poorest (quintiles: 4th, 5th)

159 (41.0)

1.0

 

Least poor (quintiles: 1st-3rd)

229 (59)

1.3 (0.8-1.9)

 

Ethnic group

   

Bagisu

247 (63.7)

1.0

1.0

Non-Bagisu

141 (36.3)

1.6 (1.0-2.5)

1.7 (1.0-2.7)

Tested for HIV today a

   

No

2 (0.5)

  

Yes

386 (99.5)

  

Received same-day HIV test results

   

No

6 (1.5)

1.0

 

Yes

282 (98.5)

1.9 (0.4-9.8)

 
  1. I.aNo unadjusted odds ratio was calculated since one of the cells had less than 5 cases.
  2. II. P-value (P) < 0.05 was statistically significant.
  3. III. The goodness-of-fit test (Omnibus Tests of Model Coefficients) of the final model was significant [Chi-square statistic (χ2) = 28.249, degrees of freedom (df) = 7, p = 0.000] and the Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test was not significant [χ2 = 5.866, df = 8, p = 0.662] as indicators of model appropriateness.