Table 6.
Assessment of categorized practice scores based on demographic variables of respondents from study area
| Demographic variables | Practice score remark (Category) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Unacceptable (0-5) | Acceptable (6-12) | Crude OR (95% CI on OR) | |
| Location | |||
| Zaria | 5(5.0%) | 95(95.0%) | 1.000 (0.230-4.343) |
| Kafanchan | 3(5.0%) | 57(95.0%) | |
| Age | |||
| <19 | 1(12.5%) | 7(87.5%) | |
| 20-30 | 2(3.1%) | 63(96.9%) | 4.500 (0.361-56.170) |
| 31-40 | 1(3.1%) | 31(96.9%) | 4.429 (0.246-79.740) |
| >40 | 4(7.3%) | 51(92.3%) | 1.821 (0.177-18.710) |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 7(4.8%) | 138(95.2%) | 0.710 (0.081-6.196) |
| Female | 1(6.7%) | 14(93.3%) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Single | 4(5.1%) | 74(94.9%) | |
| Married | 4(5.0%) | 76(95.0%) | 1.027 (0.245-4.259) |
| Widowed | 0(0.0%) | 2(100.0%) | 1.162 (0.002-714.400) |
| Occupation | |||
| Unemployed | 0(0.0%) | 54(100.0%) | |
| Civil servant | 2(2.9%) | 68(97.1%) | |
| Businessman/woman | 5(21.7%) | 18(78.3%) | 0.106 (0.019-0.591)* |
| Farmer | 1(7.7%) | 12(92.3%) | 0.353 (0.030-4.205) |
| Level of education | |||
| No formal education | 1(25.0%) | 3(75.0%) | |
| Primary | 1(10.0%) | 9(90.0%) | 3.000 (0.140-64.270) |
| Secondary | 3(7.3%) | 38(92.7%) | 4.222 (0.330-54.090) |
| Tertiary | 3(2.9%) | 102(97.1%) | 11.330 (0.896-143.40) |
| Number of children | |||
| None | 1(1.3%) | 77(98.7%) | |
| 1 | 2(14.3%) | 12(85.7%) | 0.078 (0.007-0.927)* |
| 2 | 1(10.0%) | 9(90.0%) | 0.117 (0.007-2.034) |
| 3 | 2(12.5%) | 14(87.5%) | 0.091 (0.008-1.072) |
| >3 | 2(4.8%) | 40(95.2%) | 0.026 (0.023-2.952) |
*
significant at p<0.05