Admission Outcome and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Bacterial Isolates among Neonates with Suspected Sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Dessie, Northeastern Ethiopia

Table 4

Logistic regression analysis of maternal data in relation to neonates with suspected sepsis admitted in NICU at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Dessie, Northeastern Ethiopia, August 2017 to March 2018.

S.no.	Characteristics	Bi-variable analysis		Multivariable analysis
		Corollary (95% CI)	-value	AOR (95% CI)	-value
1	Age in years
	18–34	0.64 (0.33–1.25)	0.192	0.43 (0.20–0.92)	0.029
	≥35	Ref		Ref
2	Marital status
	Currently unmarried	Ref	0.871
	Currently married	1.08 (0.43–2.68)
3	Residence
	Rural	1.13 (0.64–1.99)	0.667
	Urban	Ref
4	Occupation status of mothers
	Unemployed	Ref	0.412
	Employed	1.27 (0.72–2.23)
5	Educational status
	Illiterate	1.41 (0.61–3.28)	0.597
	Primary school level	0.91 (0.49–1.67)	0.427
	Secondary and above	Ref	0.756
6	No. Of parity
	Primparity	1.08 (0.36–3.23)	0.969
	2–4	1.01 (0.33–3.08)	0.885
	≥5	Ref	0.985
7	Number of ANC visit
	<4	Ref	0.098	Ref	0.089
	≥4	1.62 (0.91–2.89)		1.79 (0.92–3.5)
8	Twin pregnancy
	No	Ref	0.722
	Yes	0.81 (0.26–2.58)
9	Urinary tract infection
	No	Ref	0.005	19 (2.02–178.7)	0.01
	Yes	20.77 (2.5–172)
10	Vaginal discharge foul smelling
	No	Ref	0.511
	Yes	1.63 (0.38–7.02)
11	Place of delivery
	Hospital	0.75 (0.42–1.36)	0.350
	Non-hospital	Ref
12	Mode of delivery
	Spontaneous vortex	Ref	0.038	Ref
	Assisted vaginal delivery	3.88 (1.37–11)	0.011	3.61 (1.05–12.41)	0.042
	Caesarian section	1.11 (0.52–2.38)	0.793	1.45 (0.61–3.42)	0.402
13	Duration of labour
	<18 hrs	Ref	0.466
	≥18 hrs.	1.52 (0.49–4.72)
14	Prolonged rupture of membrane
	<18 hrs	Ref	0.000	Ref	0.000
	≥18 hrs	6.05 (3.06–11.93)		7.34 (3.44–15.63)

Ref: reference category, indicates statistically significantly associated factors.