Newborn Care Practices among Mother-Infant Dyads in Urban Uganda

Table 3

Levels of selected newborn care practices in selected demographic, antenatal, and delivery characteristics of mother-infant dyads in Kampala district, Uganda, 2012.

	Applied substance to cord		Early initiation of breastfeeding		Bathed baby within 24 hours of birth
	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Parity
Para 1	52 (60%)	35	41 (48%)	44	32 (42%)	44
Para >1	143 (56%)	114	162 (67%)	79	107 (43%)	141
Education
None/primary	75 (54%)	63	84 (62%)	51	56 (41%)	81
Secondary/tertiary	124 (62%)	76	125 (66%)	64	83 (42%)	115
Place of delivery
Hospital	122 (55%)	101	133 (63%)	78	67 (32%)	143
Health centre	37 (54%)	32	46 (64%)	26	55 (67%)	27
Private clinic	24 (65%)	13	21 (58%)	15	22 (61%)	14
Home	11 (58%)	8	10 (55%)	8	9 (45%)	11
ANC attendance
Less than 4 times	97 (56%)	77	107 (61%)	67	73 (42%)	101
4 or more times	99 (61%)	64	100 (62%)	62	67 (41%)	97