Table 3.

Components of the MIMA Model of Care Used by the Midwives’ in an Intervention Study to Minimize Second‐Degree Tears during Labor, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013–2015

	Intervention group	Standard care group	Crude OR
	N = 296 (%)	N = 301 (%)	(95% CI)
Components and composite variable for the MIMA model of care
Spontaneous pushing	122 (41.6)	94 (31.2)	1.57 (1.12–2.20)*
Flexible sacrum position	202 (68.2)	175 (58.3)	1.55 (1.11–2.16)*
Two‐step principle of head‐to‐body birth	142 (48.5)	97 (32.9)	1.92 (1.38–2.68)**
The MIMA model of care†	53 (18.0)	17 (5.7)	3.65 (2.06–6.46)**

†The MIMA model of care is a composite variable of the use of all the three parts of the intervention during the entire second stage. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.001.