Level of Knowledge and Associated Factors of Postnatal Mothers’ towards Essential Newborn Care Practices at Governmental Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 2

Factors associated with poor maternal knowledge on newborn care in Addis Ababa health centers, Dec. 1-Jan. 30, 2017.

Variables	Knowledge of mothers		COR(95%CI)	AOR(95% CI)
	Good	Poor
Age
15-25	85 41.1%	122 58.9%	0.97(0.54,1.75)	0.73(0.37,1.42)
26-35	94 37.5%	151 62.5%	0.87(0.49,1.55)	0.73(0.39,1.37)
36-45	25 41.7%	35 58.3%	1	1
Education status
Illiterate	9 21.4%	33 78.6%	0.35 (0.16,0.77)	0.77 (0.32,1.85)
1-10	99 39.6%	151 60.4%	0.85 (0.59,1.22)	1.21 (0.79,1.85)
Higher than 10	96 43.6%	124 56.4%	1	1
Marital status
Married	188 40.5%	276 59.5%	1	1
Single/Divorce and widowed	16 33.3%	32 66.7%	1.36 (0.72,2.55)	1.40(0.72,2.71)
Occupation
Employed	144 47.1	162 52.9%	1	1
Unemployed	60 29%	146 71%	2.16 (1.49,3.15)	2.10 (1.38,3.20)
Income
≤1000	19 23.8	61 76.2%	0.42 (0.24,0.73)	0.60(0.32,1.10)
1001-2000	49 43%	65 57%	1.01 (0.65,1.55)	1.14(0.71,1.83)
>2001	136 42.8%	182 57.2%	1	1
Parity
Primipara	158 44.5%	197 55.5%	1.93 (1.29,2.89)	1.99 (1.25,3.20)
Multipara	46 29.3	111 70.7%	1	1
No of antenatal visit
< 4	36 31%	80 69%	0.59(0.38,0.92)	0.63(0.40,0.99)
≥ 4	168 43.2%	221 56.8%	1	1

significant at p <0.05 1: reference category.