Table 5.

Multilevel model results of the association between infant feeding practices and maternal depressive symptoms and other predictors, Ethiopia, 2019

Factors	β	95% CI		P-value	SE
Maternal age	0.010	−0.036	0.057	0.66	0.024
Mother Education
Illiterate
Primary	0.787	0.240	1.333	0.005	0.279
Secondary & above	1.357	0.567	2.146	0.001	0.403
Religion
Orthodox
Protestant & Catholic	1.497	0.548	2.447	0.002	0.484
Muslim	−2.587	−3.209	−1.965	< 0.001	0.317
Wealth index	−0.007	−0.073	0.060	0.844	0.034
Household food security
Secured
Mildly insecure	−0.692	−1.458	0.073	0.076	0.391
Moderately insecure	0.836	0.293	1.380	0.003	0.277
Severely insecure	1.034	0.251	1.816	0.01	0.399
Prenatal Depression
Yes	−0.024	−0.802	0.755	0.953	0.397
No
Postnatal Depression (within 3 days of birth)
Yes	−1.031	−1.647	−0.414	0.001	0.314
No
Maternal social support	0.107	0.041	0.174	0.002	0.034
Social participation	0.552	0.298	0.806	< 0.001	0.129
Intimate partner violence	−0.208	−0.337	−0.080	0.001	0.065
Child gender
Male
Female	−0.128	0.580	0.326	0.58	0.232
Gestational age at birth	0.517	0.035	0.998	0.036	0.246
Antenatal care visits
No ANC
1–3 ANC visits	−0.418	−1.023	0.186	0.175	0.309
4 plus visits	0.261	−0.325	0.847	0.382	0.299
Child illness
Yes	0.625	0.134	1.117	0.013	0.251
No
Constant	67.389	64.723	70.054	< 0.001	1.360
Random-effects
Variance of random intercept	7.208	6.971	7.453		0.123
Variance of random slope	24.743	23.741	25.789		0.522
Covariance of random intercept and slope	−0.998	−0.999	−0.994		0.001
Variance of measurement errors	13.29416	13.09836	13.49288		0.10064

SE standard error