Table 2.
Association between EBF and women's sociodemographic characteristics.
| Sociodemographic characteristics | Exclusive breastfeeding (n = 858) | P -Value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Total | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Emirate | Sharjah | 119 | 54.6 | 263 | 42.8 | 382 | 45.9 | 0.003* |
| Dubai | 99 | 45.4 | 351 | 57.2 | 450 | 54.1 | ||
| Marriage age of mother | ≤ 20 | 75 | 35.0 | 175 | 28.6 | 250 | 30.3 | 0.079 |
| >20 | 139 | 65.0 | 436 | 71.4 | 575 | 69.7 | ||
| Marital status | Married | 213 | 97.7 | 600 | 97.7 | 813 | 97.7 | 0.991 |
| Divorced or widow | 5 | 2.3 | 14 | 2.3 | 19 | 2.3 | ||
| Mother education | High school and less | 68 | 31.2 | 193 | 31.4 | 261 | 31.4 | 0.948 |
| Higher than high school | 150 | 68.8 | 421 | 68.6 | 571 | 68.6 | ||
| Mother occupation | Working | 41 | 18.8 | 199 | 32.4 | 240 | 28.8 | 0.000* |
| Not working | 177 | 81.2 | 415 | 67.6 | 592 | 71.2 | ||
| Husband education | High school and less | 53 | 24.3 | 182 | 29.6 | 235 | 28.2 | 0.133 |
| Higher than high school | 165 | 75.7 | 432 | 70.4 | 597 | 71.8 | ||
| Husband occupation | Working fulltime | 217 | 99.5 | 603 | 98.2 | 820 | 98.6 | 0.156 |
| Not working | 1 | 0.5 | 11 | 1.8 | 12 | 1.4 | ||
*
P-value significant at P = < 0.005.