Table 4.
Factors that affect prelacteal feeding among mothers of infants age less than 6 months using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis model, East Gojjam, Ethiopia, 2015
| Variables | Prelacteal feeding | ||||
| Yes (N & %) |
No (N & %) |
COR (95% CL) | AOR(95% CL) | ||
| Age(mother) | 15–19 | 0(0) | 5(100) | ||
| 20–35 | 66(18.4) | 292(81.6) | 2.832(1.432, 5.600) | ||
| 36+ | 16(39) | 25(61) | 1 | ||
| Order of child | First | 14(12.8%) | 95(87.2%) | 2.033(1.090,3.790) | |
| Second and above |
68(23.1%) | 227(76.9%) | 1 | ||
| Mother | Uneducated | 66(23.4) | 216(76.6) | 1 | |
| education | Educated | 16(13.1) | 106(86.9) | 2.024(1.118, 3.665) | |
| Husband | Uneducated | 53(25.2) | 157(74.8) | 1 | |
| education | Educated | 16(11.2) | 127(88.8) | 2.680(1.462,4.912) | |
| ANC | yes | 58(16.7%) | 290(83.3) | 1 | |
| no | 24(42.9) | 32(57.1) | 3.750(2.059, 6.382) | ||
| Breastfeeding | yes | 24(11.7) | 182(88.3) | 1 | |
| counseling | no | 34(23.9) | 108(76.1) | 2.387(1.344, 4.239) | |
| during ANC | |||||
| Place of birth | Health | 51(15.1) | 286(84.9) | 1 | |
| facility | |||||
| Home | 31(46.3) | 36(53.7) | 4.829(2.744, 8.497) | ||
| PNC | yes | 29(14.7) | 168(85.3) | 1 | |
| No | 53(25.6) | 154(74.4) | 1.994(1.206, 3.296) | ||
| Information | Yes | 68(18.8) | 293(81.2) | 1 | |
| breastfeeding | No | 14(32.6) | 29(67.4) | 2.080(1.043,4.148) | |
| Timely | yes | 42(13.2) | 276(86.8) | 1 | 1 |
| initiation | No | 40(46.5) | 46(53.5) | 5.714(3.351,9.745) | 4.492(2.120, 9.517)* |
| Colostrum | yes | 46(14.3) | 276(85.7) | 1 | 1 |
| feeding | No | 36(43.9) | 46(56.1) | 4.696(2.746, 8.028) | 3.540(1.534, 8.173)* |
| Husband | Yes | 50(16.1) | 260(83.9) | 1 | 1 |
| support | No | 19(44.2) | 24(53.8) | 4.117(2.099,8.075) | 3.781(1.568, 9.120)* |
1=reference
*
=p-value less than 0.01(very significant) N=number %=percent