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. 2020 Mar 20;10(2):1050. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2019.1050

Table 3.

Determinants of physical or psychological violence: crude and logistic regression adjusted estimates of odds ratios (OR) and respective 95% Confidence intervals (95% CI).

Violence during pregnancy
Physical* OR (95%CI) Psychological** OR (95%CI)
Crude Adjusted1 Crude Adjusted1
Maternal age (years)
    13-19 1 1 1 1
    20-24 0.71 (0.35, 1,43) 0.77 (0.30, 2.00) 2.30 (1.05, 5.05) 2.55 (1.03, 6.35)
    25-29 0.42 (0.19, 0.93) 0.36 (0.11, 1.14) 1.33 (0.57, 3.10) 1.56 (0.54, 4.47)
    ≥30 0.24 (0.10, 0.58) 0.21 (0.06, 0.73) 1.59 (0.73, 3.48) 2.06 (0.74, 5.76)
Education (years)
    0-4 1 1 1 1
    5-8 0.57 (0.27, 1.20) 0.47 (0.20, 1.13) 0.62 (0.31, 1.25) 0.71 (0.33, 1.54)
    9-12 0.49 (0.23, 1.03) 0.38 (0.15, 0.99) 0.90 (0.47, 1.74) 1.03 (0.48, 2.20)
    ≥13 0.20 (0.04, 0.92) 0.27 (0.05, 1.40) 0.66 (0.26, 1.70) 0.68 (0.24, 1.92)
Marital status
    Married (or in cohabitation) 0.71 (0.38, 1.32) 1.21 (0.51, 2.85) 0.72 (0.43, 1.21) 0.46 (0.23, 0.90)
    Single 1 1 1 1
Place of Residence
    Urban 0.73 (0.42, 1.29) 0.69 (0.35, 1.34) 0.88 (0.55, 1.40) 0.78 (0.47, 1.29)
    Periurban 1 1 1 1
Monthly Family Income (US$)
    ≤300 1 1 1 1
    >300 0.99 (0.47, 2.09) 0.83 (0.36, 1.91) 1.16 (0.67, 2.01) 1.10 (0.62, 1.96)
    Do not know/do not say 1.05 (0.54, 2.05) 0.67 (0.29, 1.49) 0.62 (0.35, 1.12) 0.53 (0.27, 1.02)
Alcohol consumption
    No 1 1 1 1
    Yes 3.31 (1.85, 5.93) 3.25 (1.16, 6.55) 1.49 (0.85, 2.60) 1.52 (0.85, 2.73)
1st sexual intercourse (years)
    <15 2.49 (1.20, 5.20) 1.39 (0.59, 3.30) 1.83 (0.95, 3.55) 2.39 (1.16, 4.92)
    ≥15 1 1 1 1
Previous pregnancies
    No 1 1 1 1
    Yes 0.52 (0.29, 0.92) 0.74 (0.30, 1.81) 1.09 (0.64, 1.85) 1.15 (0.56, 2.39)
Pseudo R2 11% 6%
Hosmer and Lemeshow test p=0.218 p=0.166

*Physical violence includes women reporting physical abuse-only or any combination of physical, sexual and psychological abuse

**Psychological violence includes women reporting only psychological abuse. 1Adjusted for all the covariates.