Table 2.

Severe malnutrition associated with place of delivery after conditional logistic regression analysis

Place of delivery	Cases	Controls	Severe underweight	Severe stunting	Severe wasting	Any severe undernutrition
	n = 918 (%)	n = 1836 (%)	n = 301	n = 693	n = 210	Odds ratio (95% CI)
			Odds ratio (95% CI)	Odds ratio (95% CI)	Odds ratio (95% CI)
Hospital
Publicly owned	177 (19.3)	423 (23.0)	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Privately owned	229 (24.9)	443 (24.1)	1.08 (0.66–1.76)	1.38 (1.03–1.69)*	1.11 (0.62–1.97)	1.23 (0.95–1.59)
Outside hospital
Traditional maternity homes	385 (41.9)	777 (42.3)	1.35 (0.86–2.14)	1.17 (0.88–1.56)	1.24 (0.73–2.10)	1.21 (0.95–1.54)
Residential homes	82 (8.9)	90 (4.9)	2.98 (1.51–5.88)**	2.33 (1.50–3.60)***	2.90 (1.32–6.37)**	2.17 (1.49–3.17)***
Church premises	40 (4.4)	98 (5.3)	1.13 (0.51–2.50)	0.89 (0.53–1.47)	1.55 (0.65–3.72)	0.95 (0.62–1.46)
Born before arrival in hospital	5 (0.5)	5 (0.3)	1.26 (0.11–14.31)	0.35 (0.04–3.32)	–	2.00 (0.53–7.61)
Hosmer–Lemeshow test			P = 0.217	P = 0.971	P = 0.795	P = 0.634

CI, confidence interval. *P < 0.05;**P < 0.01;***P < 0.001. All models adjusted for maternal age, parity, education, type of housing sanitation, antenatal care, multiple gestation, hospital admission for neonatal illness and hyperbilirubinaemia requiring phototherapy.