Factors Associated with Men’s Awareness of Danger Signs of Obstetric Complications and Its Effect on Men’s Involvement in Birth Preparedness Practice in Southern Ethiopia, 2014

Table 3

Association (odds ratio, 95% CI) between men’s awareness of danger signs of obstetric complications and birth preparedness: hierarchical logistic regression analysis.

Male involvements in birth preparedness practice	Crude odds ratio	Model 1; (adjusted for residence)	Model 2; (adjusted for residence and wealth index)	Model 3; (adjusted for residence, wealth index, education, and occupational status)
Men’s awareness
Has awareness	1.79 (1.12, 2.8)	2.58 (1.54, 4.30)	2.26 (1.30, 3.92)	1.91 (1.07, 3.41
Has no awareness	1	1	1	1
Residences	—
Rural		0.31 (0.19, 0.54)	0.31 (0.18, 0.54)	0.27 (0.15, 0.49
Urban		1	1	1
Wealth index quintile	—	—
Lowest			0.12 (0.02, 0.99)	0.19 (0.23, 1.64)
Second			3.37 (1.55, 7.32)	4.38 (1.93, 9.92
Middle			5.29 (2.44, 11.5)	7.04 (3.01, 16.5
Fourth			0.86 (0.29, 2.49)	1.21 (0.39, 3.77)
Highest			1	1
Paternal education	—	—	—
No education				0.77 (0.28, 2.13)
Primary education				1.71 (0.68, 4.28)
Secondary education				4.61 (1.91, 11.1
Above secondary education				1
Maternal occupation	—	—	—
Housewife				1
Farmer				0.23 (0.061, 0.88)
Weaver				1.06 (0.10, 10.3)
Government employee				0.54 (0.14, 2.02)
Others (merchant)				0.79 (0.35, 1.78)

Note: value: <0.05; <0.001.