Perinatal Depression and Associated Factors among Mothers in Southern Ethiopia: Evidence from Arba Minch Zuria Health and Demographic Surveillance Site

Table 4

Analysis of obstetric factors of participants associated with perinatal depression, Arba Minch Zuria District, Ethiopia, March, 2017.

Obstetric factors	Perinatal depression		(95% C.I)	value	(95% C.I)
	Yes	No
Number of pregnancy
Primigravida	12	107	0.16 (0.08, 0.31)		0.14
Multigravida	84	278	0.43 (0.3, 0.6)	0.000	0.5
Grand multigravida	90	129	1
Number of children
No child	2	61	0.05 (0.01, 0.22)		0.36 (0.05, 2.6)
1 child	26	110	0.37 (0.2, 0.66)		1.23 (0.37, 4.1)
2–4 children	122	280	0.68 (0.43, 0.97)		1.17 (0.5, 2.67)
More than four children	38	59	1
Age at marriage			1.1 (1.05, 1.17)		1.2
Abortion
Yes	54	71	2.54 (1.7, 3.8)		1.23 (0.66, 2.3)
No	132	441	1
Health problems during pregnancy
Yes	64	49	4.9 (3.2, 7.5)		5
No	124	465
Planned pregnancy
Yes	142	434	0.58 (0.39, 0.88)		1.12 (0.6, 2.14)
No	46	82
ANC
Regular	162	452	0.88 (0.54, 1.44)	0.62
Sometimes/never	26	64
Child death
Yes	48	64	2.3 (1.5, 3.5)		0.86 (0.44, 1.67)
No	138	419	1
Child hospitalization
Yes	16	34	1.2 (0.65, 2.26)	0.54
No	170	439	1
Mode of delivery
Vaginal	176	423	1.25 (0.6, 2.6)	0.55
C/S Instrumental	10	30
Child sex
Male	102	237	1.08 (0.77, 1.53)	0.64
Female	84	212

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