Table 5.

Multivariate analysis for factors associated with currently non‐breastfeeding and discontinuation of breastfeeding at 1 year

Outcome	Independent variable	Adjusted odds ratio	95% confidence interval (CI)		P‐value
Currently non‐breastfed	Maternal education
	Higher	1.00
	Secondary	0.63	0.46	0.87	0.01
	Primary or no education	1.15	0.67	1.95	0.61
	Age of child (months)
	0–5	1.00
	6–11	11.83	2.78	50.36	<0.01
	12–17	42.41	9.32	193.07	<0.01
	18–23	94.91	21.40	420.97	<0.01
	Place of delivery
	District/rural hospital/peripheral unit/maternity home	1.00
	Teaching/general/base hospital	0.94	0.56	1.57	0.81
	Private hospital/other	3.73	1.95	7.13	<0.01
	Mode of delivery
	Non‐caesarean	1.00
	Caesarean section	1.46	1.03	2.08	0.03
	Antenatal home visits by PHM
	Yes	1.00
	No	1.46	1.05	2.03	0.02
	Residence
	Rural	1.00
	Urban	2.80	1.90	4.12	<0.01
	Estate	3.23	1.93	5.40	<0.01
Discontinued at 1 year	Mode of delivery
	Non‐caesarean	1.00
	Caesarean section	2.97	1.38	6.40	<0.01
	Number of post‐natal home visits by PHM
	At least one	1.00
	None	2.62	1.21	5.65	0.01
	Residence
	Rural	1.00
	Urban	1.96	0.86	4.47	0.11
	Estate	11.41	3.51	37.12	<0.01
	Province
	Western	1.00
	Central	0.14	0.04	0.56	0.01
	Southern	0.30	0.07	1.31	0.11
	Eastern	0.62	0.18	2.13	0.45
	North Western	0.53	0.09	3.01	0.47
	North Central
	Uva	0.33	0.09	1.13	0.08
	Sabaragamuwa	0.86	0.20	3.86	0.87

PHM, public health midwife. P‐values and CIs have been adjusted to take into account the sampling methods.