Table 2 Univariate and multivariate logistic regression of mothers’ knowledge and primary family caregivers’ knowledge on exclusive breastfeeding
Dependent variable: EBF | Model I: Univariate regression | Model II: Multivariate regression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OR (95% CI) | P-value | AOR (95% CI) | P-value | |||
Health and nutrition knowledge | ||||||
Mothers’ knowledge | 1.43 (1.16, 1.77) | 0.001 | 1.48 (1.16, 1.88) | 0.002 | ||
Primary family caregivers’ knowledge | 1.24 (1.01, 1.52) | 0.038 | 1.34 (1.05, 1.70) | 0.017 | ||
Infant and family characteristics | ||||||
Infants’ age (months) | 0.85 (0.72, 1.00) | 0.055 | 0.81 (0.66, 0.98) | 0.032 | ||
Number of siblings | 1.04 (0.65, 1.69) | 0.858 | 1.49 (0.78, 2.85) | 0.224 | ||
Low family income | 0.43 (0.19, 0.98) | 0.044 | 0.42 (0.16, 1.06) | 0.067 | ||
High family income | 1.17 (0.59, 2.30) | 0.655 | 0.89 (0.39, 2.04) | 0.782 | ||
Mothers’ characteristics | ||||||
Mothers’ age | 0.94 (0.87, 1.00) | 0.066 | 0.95 (0.86, 1.05) | 0.300 | ||
Education (senior high school and above) | 1.02 (0.56, 1.86) | 0.949 | 0.72 (0.35, 1.50) | 0.385 | ||
Primary family caregivers’ characteristics | ||||||
Primary family caregivers’ age | 1.02 (0.99, 1.04) | 0.190 | 1.03 (0.98, 1.08) | 0.219 | ||
Education (junior high school and above) | 0.83 (0.45, 1.51) | 0.537 | 0.91 (0.43, 1.94) | 0.806 | ||
Relationship to infant (father as ref) | ||||||
Paternal grandparents | 1.77 (0.86, 3.62) | 0.120 | 1.21 (0.34, 4.26) | 0.771 | ||
Maternal grandparents | 2.26 (0.86, 5.93) | 0.097 | 1.49 (0.35, 6.29) | 0.586 | ||