Table 5.
Determinants of not introducing solid, semi‐solid or soft food to infants 6–8 months, Sri Lanka 2006–2007: unadjusted and adjusted ORs
| Characteristic | Risk for not introducing complementary food | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted | Adjusted | |||||
| OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | |
| Child characteristics | ||||||
| Nil | ||||||
| Parental characteristics | ||||||
| Maternal BMI (kg m−2) | ||||||
| 18.5–24.9 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| <18.5 | 1.07 | (0.75, 1.55) | 0.702 | 1.08 | (0.75, 1.54) | 0.679 |
| ≥25 | 0.66 | (0.46, 0.94) | 0.020 | 0.63 | (0.44, 0.90) | 0.012 |
| Household characteristics | ||||||
| Nil | ||||||
| Health care characteristics | ||||||
| Antenatal clinic visits | ||||||
| ≥7 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| 4–6 | 1.10 | (0.78, 1.56) | 0.575 | 1.13 | (0.79, 1.61) | 0.50 |
| 1–3 | 0.63 | (0.41, 0.96) | 0.033 | 0.64 | (0.41, 1.00) | 0.05 |
| Unknown | 2.67 | (0.59, 12.15) | 0.204 | 2.63 | (0.58, 11.96) | 0.21 |
| Community level characteristics | ||||||
| Province | ||||||
| Western | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Central | 1.32 | (0.87, 2.00) | 0.196 | 1.33 | (0.88, 2.03) | 0.173 |
| Southern | 0.67 | (0.47, 0.96) | 0.027 | 0.69 | (0.48, 1.00) | 0.049 |
| Eastern | 1.07 | (0.71, 1.61) | 0.755 | 1.18 | (0.79, 1.77) | 0.420 |
| North Western | 0.88 | (0.56, 1.40) | 0.597 | 0.95 | (0.60, 1.52) | 0.842 |
| North Central | 1.47 | (0.72, 3.01) | 0.294 | 1.45 | (0.71, 2.95) | 0.306 |
| Uva | 1.05 | (0.73, 1.51) | 0.790 | 1.10 | (0.77, 1.56) | 0.613 |
| Sabaragamuwa | 0.92 | (0.51, 1.65) | 0.781 | 0.90 | (0.50, 1.63) | 0.735 |
BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio. Adjusted odds ratios are based on the multiple logistic regression model that includes all predictor variables retained by backward elimination, and also taking account of the clustering.