Table 3.
Associations between any food insecurity and breastfeeding outcomes (Ref: food secure)
| Outcome | Unadjusted | P-value | Model 1 | P-value | Model 2 | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | OR | 95 % CI | ||||
| Continued breastfeeding for 6 months | n 298 | n 295 | n 289 | ||||||
| 0·98 | 0·55, 1·73 | 0·94 | 0·79 | 0·41, 1·49 | 0·46 | 0·71 | 0·37, 1·38 | 0·31 | |
| Exclusive breastfeeding for 4 months | n 290 | n 287 | n 282 | ||||||
| 1·04 | 0·62, 1·73 | 0·89 | 1·00 | 0·58, 1·73 | 0·99 | 0·93 | 0·51, 1·69 | 0·81 | |
| Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months | n 293 | n 290 | n 285 | ||||||
| 0·69 | 0·36, 1·32 | 0·26 | 0·62 | 0·31, 1·22 | 0·17 | 0·55 | 0·26, 1·15 | 0·11 | |
Model 1 adjusted for maternal post-secondary education, parity and Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program site.
Model 2 includes all Model 1 covariates and hospital formula supplementation.
All analyses demonstrated goodness-of-fit based on the Hosmer Lemeshow test (P > 0·05). Model 2 analyses also met the desired threshold for AUC (> 0·7).