Table 2.

Univariate Logistic Regression Analysis of the characteristics of pregnant women to identify factors associated with low birth weight of infants (n = 222)

Pregnant women characteristics		Crude OR	(95% CI)	P-value
Pregnant women age (years)	For every 5 year increase	0.7	(0.5 0.9)	0.032
Age at first pregnancy (years)	For every 5 year increase	0.9	(0.6 1.5)	0.796
Gravidity (total number of pregnancies)	For every 1 unit increase	0.8	(0.7 0.9)	0.031
Weight at first visit (kg)	For every 10 kg weight increase	0.6	(0.5 0.9)	0.006
Height of pregnant women (cm)	For every 10 cm increase	0.9	(0.7 1.3)	0.739
Pregnant women education	No education	1		0.805
	Below high school equivalent	0.8	(0.3 1.8)
	High school equivalent and above	0.9	(0.3 2.4)
Household characteristics
No of people living in house hold	For every 1 unit increase	1.0	(0.9 1.1)	0.766
No of rooms in the household	For every 1 unit increase	1.0	(0.8 1.3)	0.738
Total score of household assets	For every 200 unit increase	0.7	(0.4 0.9)	0.073
Source of drinking water	Piped water	1		0.578
	Water bought from tankers	1.1	(0.5 2.4)
	Water bought from drums	1.5	(0.7 3.1)
Use of boiled water	Yes	0.9	(0.4 2.0)	0.847
	No	1.0	-
Antenatal characteristics
Child gestational age in weeks	For every 1 week increase	0.4	(0.2 0.8)	0.000
First pregnancy	No	1		0.798
	Yes	0.9	(0.4 2.1)
Number of antenatal visits during current pregnancy	For every 1 visit increase	1.0	(0.8 1.3)	0.828
Delivery location of last child	No previous pregnancy	1	(0.4 2.6)	0.815
	Maternity home	1.0
	Home	1.2	(0.5 2.9)
Clinical characteristics
Maternal fevera	For every 10 episode increase	1.1	(0.7 1.6)	0.698
Maternal diarrheaa	For every 5 episode increase	0.8	(0.6 1.1)	0.178
Maternal vomitinga	For every 10 episode increase	0.9	(0.7 1.4)	0.969
Total number of Respiratory symptom episodesa	For every 50 episodes increase	1.2	(0.8 1.8)	0.313

^aEpisodes per 100 weeks of pregnancy