Table 3.
Binary logistic regression analysis of low birth weight risk factors
| Variable (n=338) | Categories | B | p | Odds ratio |
95% CI |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||
|
Maternal age(years) |
≤19 | 0.352 | 0.022 | 1.423 | 1.052 | 1.923 |
| 20-34+ | - | - | - | - | - | |
| ≥35 | 0.061 | 0.772 | 1.063 | 0.704 | 1.605 | |
| Mother nationality | Turkish+ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Syrian | 0.513 | 0.000 | 1.670 | 1.269 | 2.196 | |
| Gender of infant | Male+ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Female | 0.290 | 0.018 | 1.337 | 1.051 | 1.700 | |
| Mode of birth | Vaginal birth+ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caesarean birth | 0.423 | 0.002 | 1.527 | 1.165 | 2.000 | |
| Constant | 1.782 | 0.000 | 5.945 | |||
+
Reference group