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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2017 Oct 10;139(3):290–296. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.12324

Table 3.

Exclusive breastfeeding and HIV knowledge.a,b

Outcome Individual
PNC
Group PNC Odds ratio (95%
confidence interval)
P value
Total sample
  Exclusive breastfeeding at postpartum interview 77/86 (89.5) 95/99 (96.0) 2.60 (0.81–8.36) 0.108
  UNAIDS HIV knowledge 29/51 (56.9) 39/46 (84.8) 4.59 (1.72–12.25) 0.002
  PMTCT knowledge 20/37 (54.1) 33/44 (75.0) 3.52 (1.29–9.64) 0.014
Malawi
  Exclusive breastfeeding at postpartum interview 37/40 (92.5) 48/49 (98.0) 3.02 (0.41–21.88) 0.275
  UNAIDS HIV knowledge 8/17 (47.1) 21/24 (87.5) 6.55 (1.46–29.31) 0.014
  PMTCT knowledge 9/20 (45.0) 18/21 (85.7) 8.96 (1.78–45.02) 0.008
Tanzania
  Exclusive breastfeeding at postpartum interview 40/46 (87.0) 47/50 (94.0) 2.18 (0.55–8.65) 0.270
  UNAIDS HIV knowledge 21/34 (61.8) 18/22 (81.8) 3.18 (0.88–11.55) 0.078
  PMTCT knowledge 11/17 (64.7) 15/23 (65.2) 1.52 (0.36–6.47) 0.574

Abbreviation: PNC, prenatal care; PMTCT, prevention of mother-to-child transmission.

a

Values are given as number/total number (percentage) unless indicated otherwise.

b

For the two knowledge measures, cases that were 100% correct at baseline were excluded from analyses.