Survey of the Factors Associated with a Woman's Choice to Have an Epidural for Labor Analgesia

Table 2

Multiple logistic regression analysis of factors associated with patients receiving epidural analgesia during labor.

Variable	Odds Ratio	95% CI	𝑃-value
Partner preference
Yes	25.1	5.2–122.0	<.0001
Undecided	11.4	22.9–45.6	.001
Prior epidural (yes/no)	9.0	2.5–32.5	.001
Language^∗	2.2	0.6–8.5	.264
Education^†	0.9	0.6–1.4	.654
Insurance type^∗∗	0.7	0.1–4.0	.718
Age (years)^‡	0.8	0.2–2.8	.752
Duration (hours)^††	2.6	0.6–10.9	.192
Pitocin use (yes/no)	2.3	0.5–9.4	.263

Results were derived from a multiple logistic regression analyses comparing 243 patients who received a labor epidural to 59 patients who did not.
^∗Language (primary language English yes/no); †Education (primary, junior high, high school, university, post graduate); ^∗∗Insurance type (Medical/Private); ‡Age (≥ or <35 years); ††Duration (<6 or ≥6 hours).