Exclusive Breastfeeding Practice and Its Associated Factors among Mothers of Infants Less Than Six Months of Age in Debre Tabor Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Bivariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding practices among mothers who gave birth in the last 6 months () in Debre Tabor town, 2014. ; .

Variables	EBF practice		OR (95% CI)
	Yes	No	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
Sex of the infant
Male	119	40	1
Female	227	67	1.4 (0.88, 2.25)
Age of the mothers
<30	13	8	1
20–29	233	46	1.21 (0.67, 2.16)
≥30	123	30	0.81 (0.47, 1.63)
Educational status of the mothers
Cannot read and write	16	27	1
Elementary school	299	81	1.4 (0.77, 2.52)
Secondary education and higher	19	11	0.752 (0.43, 1.29)
Mode of delivery
Vaginal	410	25	1
C/S	11	7	2.07 (1.07, 4.05)
Place of delivery
Health facility	293	77	2.7 (1.40, 5.25)	3.8
Home	37	46	1	1
ANC follow-up
Yes	384	39	2.5 (1.08, 6.24)
No	18	12	1
Occupation
Merchant	89	52	1	1
Housewife	156	75	2.7 (1.68, 4.22)	2.9
Government employee	39	32	2.7 (1.68, 4.22)	1.07 (0.25, 4.53)
Colostrum discarded
Yes	7	5	1.4 (1.52, 26.90)	1.53 (1.28, 7.42)
No	361	280
Age of the infant
<1 month	86	15	1	1
2-3 months	115	65	3.9 (2.39, 6.4)	2.3
4–6 months	96	72	1.2 (1.12, 3.41)
Monthly income
<300	27	20	1
300–999	178	40	1.3 (0.85, 2.25)
≥1000	117	71	2.12 (0.93, 4.87)
Receiving counseling/advice on infant feeding
Yes	251	73	2.01 (1.02, 3.98)	2.1
No	83	46	1	1