Table 6 |
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Safe delivery practices assisted by skilled sources by selected socio-economic variables |
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Characteristics |
Unadjusted comparison |
Multivariate |
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N (% yes¶) |
P |
OR |
95% CI |
P |
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Slum |
Non-slum |
212 (40.1) |
1.00 |
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Slum |
62 (17.7) |
0.001 |
0.45 |
0.21–0.96 |
0.038 |
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Place of residence |
Town/city |
60 (60.0) |
1.00 |
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Country side |
214 (28.0) |
<0.001 |
0.30 |
0.15–0.58 |
<0.001 |
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Composite variable of household characteristics |
Poor |
84 (19.0) |
1.00 |
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Not-poor |
190 (42.1) |
<0.001 |
1.28 |
0.62–2.65 |
0.501 |
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Composite variable of mass media access |
Not at all |
55 (18.2) |
1.00 |
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At least one media |
219 (39.3) |
0.003 |
1.23 |
0.54–2.79 |
0.628 |
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Education |
No education |
77 (16.9) |
1.00 |
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1–5 years education |
81 (25.9) |
0.169 |
1.54 |
0.67–3.55 |
0.309 |
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6+ years education |
116 (53.4) |
<0.001 |
4.34 |
1.93–9.78 |
<0.001 |
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¶Percentage of safe delivery practices |
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Khan and Kraemer BMC Public Health 2008 8:254 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-254 |
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