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Table 3 Unadjusted and adjusted analysis of factors associated with cessation of breastfeeding at 1 year

From: Cessation of breastfeeding and associated factors in the era of elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV at Ndejje health center, Uganda: a retrospective cohort study

Characteristics

Level

Modified Poisson regression analysis

uRR

95% CI

aRR

95% CI

Infant sexa

Female

Ref

 

Ref

 

Male

1.35**

(1.10,1.66)

1.25*

(1.04,1.50)

Maternal age group

≤ 24

Ref

 

Ref

 

≥ 25

1.21*

(1.00,1.46)

1.08

(0.91,1.28)

Maternal parity

1

Ref

 

Ref

 

2

0.99

(0.76,1.27)

1.02

(0.81,1.30)

≥ 3

1.23

(0.99,1.53)

1.26*

(1.04,1.53)

Attended antenatal care during recent pregnancy

No

Ref

   

Yes

1.05

(0.87,1.28)

  

Breastfeeding initiation on same day as birth

No

Ref

 

Ref

 

Yes

0.10***

(0.03,0.40)

0.06**

(0.01,0.41)

Time of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis initiation

< 6 weeks

Ref

 

Ref

 

≥ 6 weeks

0.87**

(0.79,0.95)

0.93

(0.86,1.02)

  1. Note: 1) 95% confidence intervals for risk ratios (RR) are in brackets; 2) * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 at 5% level of significance; 3) Adjusted analysis included all statistically significant variable at unadjusted analysis; 4) Ref: Reference category; 5) uRR Unadjusted RR; 6) aRR: Adjusted RR. aThe variable infant sex had five missing observations which were not imputed at adjusted analysis