Table 4.
Factors affecting practice of Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness adjusted for confounding variables in Wolaita Sodo town, Wolaita zone, Ethiopia: 2018 (n = 495)
| Variables | Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness | Crude OR (95% C.I) |
Adjusted OR (95% C.I) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (%) | Yes (%) | |||
| Age | ||||
| 15–24 | 50 (42.7) | 67 (57.3) | 2.39 (1.40, 4.05) | 2.31 (1.19, 4.46)* |
| 25–34 | 132 (50.0) | 132 (50.0) | 1.78 (1.13, 2.79) | 1.89 (1.10, 3.25)* |
| 35–44 | 73 (64.0) | 41 (36.0) | 1 | 1 |
| Women’s educational level | ||||
| No formal education | 69 (64.5) | 38 (35.5) | 1 | 1 |
| Primary education | 112 (49.3) | 115 (50.7) | 1.86 (1.16, 2.99) | 1.56 (0.94, 2.59) |
| Secondary education | 36 (57.1) | 27 (42.9) | 1.36 (0.72, 2.57) | 1.07 (0.53, 2.13) |
| College and above | 38 (38.8) | 60 (61.2) | 2.86 (1.62, 5.05) | 2.07 (1.11, 3.88)* |
| Women’s Occupational status | ||||
| Housewife | 146 (57.7) | 107 (42.3) | 0.20 (0.05, 0.73) | |
| Merchant | 39 (45.9) | 46 (54.1) | 0.32 (0.08, 1.23) | |
| Daily laborer | 35 (54.7) | 29 (45.3) | 0.23 (0.05, 0.88) | |
| Government employee | 23 (44.2) | 29 (55.8) | 0.34 (0.08, 1.37) | |
| Private employee | 9 (33.3) | 18 (66.7) | 0.55 (0.12, 2.46) | |
| students | 3 (21.4) | 11 (78.6 | 1 | |
| History of family planning use | ||||
| No | 78 (60.5) | 51 (39.5) | 1 | |
| Yes | 177 (48.4) | 189 (51.6) | 1.63 (1.08, 2.45) | |
| Gravida | ||||
| 1 | 42 (42.9) | 56 (57.1) | 1 | |
| 2–4 | 197 (54.6) | 164 (45.4) | 0.62 (0.39, 0.98) | |
| ≥ 5 | 16 (44.4) | 20 (55.6) | 0.93 (0.43, 2.02) | |
| Parity | ||||
| Nulliparous (0) | 7 (33.3) | 14 (66.7) | 1 | |
| Primiparous (1) | 58 (41.7) | 81 (58.3) | 0.69 (0.26, 1.83) | |
| Multiparous (2–4) | 180 (57.9) | 131 (42.1) | 0.36 (0.14, 0.92) | |
| Grand multiparous ≥5 | 10 (41.7) | 14 (58.3) | 0.70 (0.20, 2.36) | |
| Counseled to prepare blood donors | ||||
| No | 216 (53.6) | 187 (46.4) | 1 | 1 |
| Yes | 39 (42.4) | 53 (57.6) | 1.57 (0.99, 2.48) | 1.90 (1.15, 3.12)* |
| Counseled to Identifying skilled birth attendant | ||||
| No | 183 (54.1) | 155 (45.9) | 1 | 1 |
| Yes | 72 (45.9) | 85 (54.1) | 1.39 (0.95, 2.03) | 1.59 (1.05, 2.39)* |
| Family/Partners were counseled on BPCR | ||||
| No | 228 (55.5) | 183 (45.5) | 1 | 1 |
| Yes | 27 (32.1) | 57 (67.9) | 2.63 (1.59, 4.32) | 2.16 (1.25, 3.74)* |
| Discussion with partner about BPCR | ||||
| No | 122 (61.3) | 77 (38.7) | 1 | |
| Yes | 133 (44.9) | 163 (55.1) | 1.94 (1.34, 2.79) | |
| Total number of ANC visits | ||||
| < 4 Visits | 193 (54.7) | 160 (45.3) | 1 | |
| ≥ 4 Visits | 62 (43.7) | 80 (56.3) | 1.56 (1.05, 2.30) | |
| Pregnancy planned/unplanned | ||||
| Unplanned | 68 (43.9) | 87 (56.1) | 1 | |
| Planned | 187 (55.0) | 153 (45.0) | 0.63 (0.43, 0.93) | |
| Knowledge on key danger sign during pregnancy | ||||
| Not knowledgeable | 238 (53.0) | 211 (47.0) | 1 | |
| Knowledgeable | 17 (37.0) | 29 (63.0) | 1.92 (1.02, 3.60) | |
| Knowledge on key danger sign during childbirth | ||||
| Not knowledgeable | 211 (53.0) | 187 (47.0) | 1 | |
| Knowledgeable | 44 (45.4) | 53 (54.6) | 1.35 (0.87, 2.12) | |
*Significant association at p-value < 0.05