Getting schooled: teachers’ views on school-based breastfeeding education in Lebanon

Table 5 Binary multiple logistic regression analysis of the effect of teacher characteristics on likelihood of supporting SBBE

Variables	B	S.E	Wald	df	p	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval
Breastfeeding History [1 = yes, 2 = no]	−1.216	0.482	6.356	1	0.012	0.296	0.115	0.763
Mean score on attitude scale^a	0.760	0.321	5.613	1	0.018	0.468	0.249	0.877
Biology teacher [1 = yes, 2 = no]	−1.340	0.638	4.412	1	0.036	0.262	0.075	0.914
Highschool teacher [1 = yes, 2 = no]	−0.957	0.539	3.147	1	0.076	0.384	0.134	1.106
Constant	4.539	1.762	6.639	1	0.010	93.643

^aThe attitude scale is a continuous variable with a minimum of 1[strongly disagree] and maximum of 6 [strongly agree] assessing to what extent a teacher believes that it is a taboo to discuss the topic of breastfeeding in public in Lebanon and that schools should teach both boys and girls, not just girls, about breastfeeding

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