Table 4 Hierarchical binary logistic regression model of associations between socio-cultural factors and awareness of infant feeding guidelines among Black mothers living with HIV (n = 416)
From: Infant feeding guideline awareness among mothers living with HIV in North America and Nigeria
Dependent Variable: Black Mothers’ awareness of the guideline (1 = correct, 0 = wrong) | |||||
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Independent variables | EXP(B) | SE | Wald stat | p-value | 95% C.I. for EXP(B) |
Block 1 | |||||
Age (years) | 0.902 | 0.049 | 4.366 | 0.037 | 0.82–0.99 |
Years of formal education | 0.761 | 0.169 | 2.605 | 0.106 | 0.55–1.06 |
Marital status (1 = married, 0 = Single, widowed, divorced or separated) | 0.409 | 0.674 | 1.759 | 0.185 | 0.11–1.53 |
Country of residence (1 = Canada or US, 0 = Nigeria) | 0.326 | 0.860 | 1.701 | 0.192 | 0.06–1.76 |
Block 1 Summary | |||||
Χ2 = 19.540; Prob(Χ2) = 0.001; −2log likelihood = 122.967 | |||||
Block 2 | |||||
Disclosure of HIV Status to spouse, partner or the baby’s father (1 = yes, 0 = No) | 2.072 | 0.720 | 1.024 | 0.312 | 0.51–8.50 |
Disclosure of HIV Status to other family members (1 = yes, 0 = No) | 0.687 | 0.387 | 0.603 | 0.534 | 0.21–2.24 |
Baby’s father’s opinion influenced infant feeding choices (1 = important, 0 = unimportant) | 1.246 | 0.672 | 0.107 | 0.744 | 0.33–4.65 |
Family member’s opinion influenced infant feeding choices (1 = I care, 0 = I don’t care) | 1.478 | 0.651 | 0.360 | 0.549 | 0.41–5.30 |
Cultural beliefs influenced infant feeding choices (1 = much, 0 = not much) | 0.133 | 0.706 | 8.169 | 0.004 | 0.03–0.53 |
Functional Social Support (scores from psychometric scale) | 1.100 | 0.045 | 4.496 | 0.034 | 1.01–1.20 |
Constant | 20,604.34 | 3.218 | 9.531 | 0.002 | |
Block 2 Summary | |||||
Χ2 = 19.332; Prob(Χ2) = 0.004; −2log likelihood = 103.635 | |||||
Overall model Summary | |||||
Χ2 = 38.872 Prob(Χ2) = 0.000 Sample size included = 416 (60.03%) | |||||
Model accuracy = 95.5%; accuracy of alternative model with outliers = 87.5%. | |||||