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. 2016 Mar 15;16:54. doi: 10.1186/s12884-016-0844-9

Table 2.

Maternal CMV awareness according to socio-demographic characteristics

Population CMV awareness Crude OR (95 % CI) p-value Adjusted OR† (95 % CI) p-value
Yes No
N (column %) N (row %) N (row %) N = 479
491 (100) 76 (15) 415 (85)
CMV status
 CMV negative 225 (46) 49 (22) 176 (78)
 CMV positive 266 (54) 27 (10) 239 (90)
Age group
 18–30 185 (38) 18 (10) 167 (90) 1.64 (0.81–3.29) 0.17 1.79 (0.74–4.32) 0.20
 31–35 186 (38) 40 (22) 146 (78) 0.64 (0.35–1.19) 0.16 0.81 (0.39–1.69) 0.58
  ≥ 36 120 (24) 18 (15) 102 (85) 1 1
Born in Canada
 Yes 272 (55) 53 (19) 219 (81) 1 1
 No 219 (45) 23 (11) 196 (89) 2.06 (1.22–3.49) <0.01 1.81 (0.92–3.55) 0.08
Education level
 Up to university 188 (38) 17 (9) 171 (91) 2.43 (1.37–4.32) <0.003 1.40 (0.66–2.97) 0.38
 University 303 (62) 59 (19) 244 (81) 1 1
Family incomea (N = 479)
 Low 101 (21) 6 (6) 95 (94) 5.18 (2.10–12.81) <0.001 0.89 (0.28–2.86) 0.84
 Middle class 228 (48) 32 (14) 196 (86) 2.01 (1.18–3.40) <0.01 1.02 (0.52–2.04) 0.95
 High 150 (31) 37 (25) 113 (75) 1 1
Other children
 0 229 (47) 35 (15) 194 (85) 1 1
 1 171 (35) 32 (19) 139 (81) 0.78 (0.46–1.33) 0.36 0.88 (0.27–2.88) 0.93
  ≥ 2 91 (18) 9 (10) 82 (90) 1.64 (0.76–3.57) 0.21 2.67 (0.63–11.41) 0.18
Daycare
 Yes 218 (44) 35 (16) 183 (84) 1 1
 No 273 (56) 41 (15) 232 (85) 1.08 (0.66–1.77) 0.75 0.84 (0.26–2.75) 0.77
Employment
 None 112 (23) 3 (3) 109 (97) 64.9 (18.1–232.9) <0.0001 85.6 (17.3–421.3) <0.0001
 Others 301 (61) 37 (12) 264 (88) 12.7 (6.6–24.6) <0.0001 16.1 (7.6–33.9) <0.0001
 DCW 25 (5) 2 (8) 23 (92) 20.6 (4.3–96.9) 0.0001 18.6 (3.6–95.9) 0.0005
 HCW 53 (11) 34 (64) 19 (36) 1 1

alow = ≤ 30,000 $/y, middle = 31–99,000 $/y, high = ≥ 100, 000$/y

† OR adjusted for all variables in the table except CMV status

DCW daycare worker, HCW health care worker