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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Nurse. 2013 Oct;45(2):234–243. doi: 10.5172/conu.2013.45.2.234

Table 4.

Effects of influential factors on breastfeeding in different area

Characteristics Hauchen (suburb) Janshe (city) Xiubu (rural)
Sex
 Males 1.0 1.0 1.00
 Females 1.07 (0.69, 1.64) 1.38 (0.92, 2.09) 2.10 (1.08, 4.08)*
Grandmother received an education?
 No 1.0 1.0 1.00
 Yes 0.49 (0.28, 0.86)* 0.61 (0.30, 1.22) 0.65 (0.24, 1.74)
Mother occupation
 Unemployed (e.g., housewife) 1.0 1.00 1.00
 Skilled labor (e.g., assistant/secretary) 0.68 (0.39, 1.19) 0.88 (0.49, 1.58) 1.42 (0.67, 2.98)
 Professional/advanced 0.54 (0.29, 1.01) 0.55 (0.32, 0.97)* 0.74 (0.30, 1.85)
Primary caregivers
 Biological parents 1.0 1.00 1.00
 Others 0.36 (0.18, 0.73)* 0.70 (0.29, 1.66) 0.41 (0.15, 1.15)
Birth order
 1 1.0 1.00 1.00
 >1 0.40 (0.19, 0.84)* 0.66 (0.21, 2.07) 0.79 (0.27, 2.31)
*

p-Value < 0.05.