Table 4.

Hierarchical binary logistic regression model of associations between socio-cultural factors and awareness of infant feeding guidelines among Black mothers living with HIV (n = 416)

Dependent Variable: Black Mothers’ awareness of the guideline (1 = correct, 0 = wrong)
Independent variables	EXP(B)	SE	Wald stat	p-value	95% C.I. for EXP(B)
Block 1
Age (years)	0.902	0.049	4.366	0.037	0.82–0.99
Years of formal education	0.761	0.169	2.605	0.106	0.55–1.06
Marital status (1 = married, 0 = Single, widowed, divorced or separated)	0.409	0.674	1.759	0.185	0.11–1.53
Country of residence (1 = Canada or US, 0 = Nigeria)	0.326	0.860	1.701	0.192	0.06–1.76
Block 1 Summary
Χ2 = 19.540; Prob(Χ2) = 0.001; −2log likelihood = 122.967
Block 2
Disclosure of HIV Status to spouse, partner or the baby’s father (1 = yes, 0 = No)	2.072	0.720	1.024	0.312	0.51–8.50
Disclosure of HIV Status to other family members (1 = yes, 0 = No)	0.687	0.387	0.603	0.534	0.21–2.24
Baby’s father’s opinion influenced infant feeding choices (1 = important, 0 = unimportant)	1.246	0.672	0.107	0.744	0.33–4.65
Family member’s opinion influenced infant feeding choices (1 = I care, 0 = I don’t care)	1.478	0.651	0.360	0.549	0.41–5.30
Cultural beliefs influenced infant feeding choices (1 = much, 0 = not much)	0.133	0.706	8.169	0.004	0.03–0.53
Functional Social Support (scores from psychometric scale)	1.100	0.045	4.496	0.034	1.01–1.20
Constant	20,604.34	3.218	9.531	0.002
Block 2 Summary
Χ2 = 19.332; Prob(Χ2) = 0.004; −2log likelihood = 103.635
Overall model Summary
Χ2 = 38.872 Prob(Χ2) = 0.000 Sample size included = 416 (60.03%)
Model accuracy = 95.5%; accuracy of alternative model with outliers = 87.5%.

Statistically significant (α = .05) variables are bolded