Table 4.
Logistic regression analysis of factors associated with community involvement in obstetric emergency management
| Variable | Community involvement | Unadjusted OR | 95% CI |
Adjusted OR |
95% CI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | |||||
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 151 | 82 | 1.00 | |||
| Female | 42 | 30 | 1.32 | 0.77 - 2.26 | 1.04 | 0.56 - 1.94 |
| Age in years | ||||||
| 15 - 24 | 23 | 18 | 1.00 | |||
| 25 - 54 | 170 | 94 | 0.71 | 0.36 -1.38 | 0.67 | 0.31 - 1.45 |
| Employment status | ||||||
| Unemployed/student | 70 | 25 | 1.00 | |||
| Employed (formal/self) | 123 | 87 | 1.98 | 1.16 - 3.37* | 1.91 | 1.02 - 3.54* |
| Saving money for use when obstetric emergency develops | ||||||
| Yes | 139 | 95 | 1.00 | |||
| No | 54 | 17 | 0.46 | 0.25 - 0.84* | 0.48 | 0.25 - 0.94* |
| Rating of quality of general health care | ||||||
| Poor/Fair | 129 | 62 | 1.00 | |||
| Good | 64 | 50 | 1.63 | 1.01 - 2.62* | 0.91 | 0.48 - 1.71 |
| Rating quality of maternal health care | ||||||
| Poor/Fair | 118 | 45 | 1.00 | |||
| Good | 75 | 67 | 2.34 | 1.46 - 3.77*** | 2.22 | 1.19 - 4.14* |
| Sensitizing communities on signs of obstetric emergencies by local leaders | ||||||
| Yes | 3 | 14 | 1.00 | |||
| No | 190 | 98 | 0.11 | 0.03 - 0.39** | 0.12 | 0.03 - 0.47** |
| Distance to the nearest health unit | ||||||
| ≥ 5 km | 3 | 5 | 1.00 | |||
| < 5 km | 190 | 107 | 0.34 | 1.17 - 3.53 | 0.23 | 0.05 - 1.08 |
| Distance to the maternity unit | ||||||
| ≥ 5 km | 82 | 39 | 1.00 | |||
| < 5 km | 111 | 73 | 1.38 | 0.85 - 2.24 | 1.72 | 0.97 - 3.04 |
| Conducting community health education by health workers | ||||||
| Yes | 64 | 22 | 1.00 | |||
| No | 129 | 90 | 2.03 | 1.17 - 3.53* | 2.22 | 1.18 - 4.19* |
Key: significance is at p < 0.05:
Whereby we get * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001