Magnitude and Factors Associated with Refer Results of Newborn Hearing Screening at Academic Tertiary Level Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 2

Bivariate and multivariate regression analysis of factors associated with the first screening outcome of TEOAE (6).

First screening factors (TEOAE)	Bivariate regression analysis			Multivariate regression analysis
	COR	95% CI	value	AOR	95% CI	value
>7 days–28 days			0.041	.	.	0.863
≤24 hours	0.530	0.289–0.973	0.041	1.100	0.422–2.867	0.845
>24 hrs–7 days	0.421	0.213–0.831	0.013	1.244	0.520–2.979	0.623
Gestational age ≥34 weeks	.			.	.	0.295
Gestational age <34 weeks	5.127	2.214–11.871	0.000	1.571	0.470–5.249	0.463
Normal birth weight [2500–4000 gram]	.		0.000	.	.	0.049
Very low birth weight <1500 gram	6.322	2.6–15.372	0.000	4.338	1.138–12.395	0.015
Noise	4.925	3.126–7.758	0.000	4.746	2.505–8.992	0.001
Vernix caseosa	8.231	4.329–15.650	0.000	19.745	9.057–43.043	0.001
Neonatal jaundice	2.910	1.112–4.314	0.023	0.964	0.396–2.348	0.936
NICU admission for ≥5 days	2.464	1.338–4.539	0.004	0.509	0.152–1.703	0.273
Neonatal sepsis	2.417	1.352–4.324	0.003	4.258	0.974–18.604	0.054
Perinatal asphyxia	3.947	1.004–15.525	0.049	4.073	0.905–18.342	0.067