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Table 5 Multilevel model results of the association between infant feeding practices and maternal depressive symptoms and other predictors, Ethiopia, 2019

From: The effect of maternal depressive symptoms on infant feeding practices in rural Ethiopia: community based birth cohort study

Factors

β

95% CI

P-value

SE

Maternal age

0.010

−0.036

0.057

0.66

0.024

Mother Education

 Illiterate

     

 Primary

0.787

0.240

1.333

0.005

0.279

 Secondary & above

1.357

0.567

2.146

0.001

0.403

Religion

 Orthodox

     

 Protestant & Catholic

1.497

0.548

2.447

0.002

0.484

 Muslim

−2.587

−3.209

−1.965

< 0.001

0.317

Wealth index

−0.007

−0.073

0.060

0.844

0.034

Household food security

 Secured

     

 Mildly insecure

−0.692

−1.458

0.073

0.076

0.391

 Moderately insecure

0.836

0.293

1.380

0.003

0.277

 Severely insecure

1.034

0.251

1.816

0.01

0.399

Prenatal Depression

 Yes

−0.024

−0.802

0.755

0.953

0.397

 No

     

Postnatal Depression (within 3 days of birth)

 Yes

−1.031

−1.647

−0.414

0.001

0.314

 No

     

Maternal social support

0.107

0.041

0.174

0.002

0.034

Social participation

0.552

0.298

0.806

< 0.001

0.129

Intimate partner violence

−0.208

−0.337

−0.080

0.001

0.065

Child gender

 Male

     

 Female

−0.128

0.580

0.326

0.58

0.232

Gestational age at birth

0.517

0.035

0.998

0.036

0.246

Antenatal care visits

 No ANC

     

 1–3 ANC visits

−0.418

−1.023

0.186

0.175

0.309

 4 plus visits

0.261

−0.325

0.847

0.382

0.299

Child illness

 Yes

0.625

0.134

1.117

0.013

0.251

 No

     

Constant

67.389

64.723

70.054

< 0.001

1.360

Random-effects

 Variance of random intercept

7.208

6.971

7.453

 

0.123

 Variance of random slope

24.743

23.741

25.789

 

0.522

 Covariance of random intercept and slope

−0.998

−0.999

−0.994

 

0.001

 Variance of measurement errors

13.29416

13.09836

13.49288

 

0.10064

  1. SE standard error