Table 3.

Association Between Intention to Continue Breastfeeding and Predictors Among Employed Mothers by Multiple Logistic Regression

	Continue to breastfeed after returning to work
	Between 1 and 6 months		After 6 months
Variable	OR (95% CI)	p value	OR (95% CI)	p value
Age (<30 vs. ≥30 years)	1.63 (0.95–2.85)	0.0828	0.91 (0.43–1.95)	0.8250
Education (≥College vs. ≤High school)	1.33 (0.74–2.40)	0.3313	2.66 (1.24–5.71)	0.0119
Husband's education (≥College vs. ≤High school)	1.07 (0.59–1.97)	0.8083	0.72 (0.34–1.51)	0.3980
Worksite (Clean room vs. Office)	0.98 (0.55–1.76)	0.9694	0.65 (0.32–1.31)	0.2370
Shift work (Yes vs. No)	0.66 (0.35–1.21)	0.1832	0.70 (0.34–1.45)	0.3475
Work hours per day (≤8 vs. 9–14)	1.45 (0.65–3.06)	0.3775	2.66 (1.16–6.11)	0.0206
Access to lactation room (Independent space vs. No independent space)	1.17 (0.51–2.75)	0.7049	2.38 (1.14–6.32)	0.0284
Breastfeeding knowledge (Sufficient vs. Insufficient)	0.64 (0.38–1.02)	0.0667	0.81 (0.45–1.46)	0.5014
Awareness of breast pumping breaks (Yes vs. No)	1.09 (0.62–1.95)	0.7498	0.87 (0.43–1.73)	0.6921
Using breast pumping breaks (Yes vs. No)	33.1 (18.0–64.1)	<0.0001	61.6 (31.2–121.6)	<0.0001
Colleagues encourage breast pumping breaks (Yes vs. No)	2.53 (1.21–5.32)	0.0133	2.78 (1.14–6.76)	0.0235
Supervisor encourages breast pumping breaks (Yes vs. No)	2.45 (1.17–5.05)	0.0156	2.44 (1.06–5.61)	0.0355
Environmental health nurses encourage breast pumping breaks (Yes vs. No)	1.79 (0.88–3.62)	0.1060	1.74 (0.76–3.95)	0.1861

CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.