Table 5 Factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding, Aysaita woreda, Afar region, Ethiopia, 2015: Bivariate analysis
Variables | Categories | Exclusive Breastfeeding | p - value | Crude odds ratio (95% CI) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | ||||||
n | % | n | % | ||||
Total | 340 | 55 | 278 | 45 | |||
Residence | Urban | 239 | 77.3 | 70 | 22.7 | 0.00 | 7.0 (4.9,10.0) |
Rural | 101 | 32.3 | 208 | 67.3 | 1 | ||
Educational status | Illiterate | 183 | 48.8 | 192 | 51.2 | 1 | |
Primary | 106 | 62.4 | 64 | 37.6 | 0.003 | 1.7 (1.2,2.5) | |
Secondary & Above | 51 | 69.9 | 22 | 30.1 | 0.001 | 2.3 (1.4,4.2) | |
Knowledge | Good | 212 | 70.3 | 92 | 29.7 | 0.00 | 3.6 (2.6,5.0) |
Poor | 122 | 39.6 | 186 | 60.4 | 1 | ||
Employment | Employed | 61 | 50.8 | 59 | 49.2 | 0.305 | 0.8 (0.5,1.2) |
Not employed | 279 | 56 | 219 | 44 | 1 | ||
Delivery place | Health facility | 268 | 67.7 | 128 | 32.3 | 0.00 | 4.4 (3.1,6.2) |
Home/At TBAs house | 72 | 32.4 | 150 | 67.6 | 1 | ||
Parity | 1 | 81 | 60.9 | 52 | 39.1 | 0.00 | 3.9 (2.2,6.9) |
4–5 | 232 | 59.5 | 158 | 40.5 | 0.00 | 3.7 (2.2,6.0) | |
5+ | 27 | 28.4 | 68 | 71.6 | 1 | ||
Mothers age | 15–25 | 151 | 51 | 145 | 49 | 0.43 | 2.2 (1.0,4.6) |
26–35 | 178 | 61.8 | 110 | 38.2 | 0.02 | 3.4 (1.6,7.2) | |
36–45 & above | 11 | 32.4 | 23 | 67.6 | 1 | ||
Marital status | Married | 318 | 54.1 | 270 | 45.9 | 1 | |
Divorced | 22 | 73.3 | 8 | 26.7 | 0.44 | 2.3 (1.0,5.3) | |
Religion | Muslim | 273 | 52.1 | 251 | 47.9 | 1 | |
Christian | 67 | 71.3 | 27 | 28.7 | 0.001 | 2.3 (1.4,3.7) | |