Table 7.

predictors of mother’s experience on neonatal danger signs, April 2019, northwest Ethiopia

Variable	Mothers experience		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Good	Poor
Residence
Urban	34	279	2.04 (1.4,3.1)	1.77 (1.0,3.0)*
Semi-urban	31	304	1.71 (1.1,2.6)	1.54 (1.0,2.5)*
Rural	95	1592	1	1
Father´s occupation
Farmer	130	1953	1	1
Merchant	10	87	1.72 (0.9,3.4)	1.31 (0.6,2.8)
Gov't employee	7	57	1.84 (0.8,4.1)	1.61 (0.7,3.8)
Others	13	78	2.50 (1.4,4.6)	2.28 (1.1,4.6*
Number of pregnancies
1-2 Pregnancies	60	761	1.28 (0.9,1.9)	7.68 (1.7,34.2)**
3-4 Pregnancies	56	701	1.30 (0.9,2.0)	3.24 (1.31,8.1)*
5-12 Pregnancies	44	713	1	1
Number of living children
1-3 Children	26	656	1	1
4-6 Children	58	685	2.14 (1.3,3.4)	4.5(1.4,14.5)*
7-11 Children	39	552	1.78 (1.7,3.0)	9.8(2.3,42.0)**
ANC attendance
Yes	132	1528	1
No	28	647	0.50 (0.3,0.8)
Gestational age
Preterm	4	15	3.77 (1.23,11.5)	3.34 (0.8,13.4)*
Term	151	2132	1	1
Post term	5	13	5.43 (1.91,15.4)	6.46 (2.1,19.5)**
Delivery assistant
Traditional birth attendants	46	828	1	1
Mother in law/relatives	32	375	1.54 (1.0,2.5)	1.89 (1.1,3.2)*
Health center staff	58	704	1.48 (1.0,2.2)	0.91 (0.6,1.5)
Hospital staff	17	205	1.49 (0.8,2.7)	2.10 (1.0,4.3)*
Others (HEW, etc.)	7	62	2.03 (0.9,4.7)	2.62 (1.1,6.3)*
Overall knowledge of mothers on neonatal danger signs
Poor knowledge	43	783	0.65 (0.46,0.94)	0.66 (0.46,0.94)*
Good knowledge	117	1392	1	1

Note: * = p ≤ 0.05, ** = p ≤ 0.001