Breastfeeding Practices, Demographic Variables, and Their Association with Morbidities in Children

Table 4

Variables associated with hospital admissions in children aged more than 6 months.

Variables	p value	OR	95% CI for OR
			Lower	Upper
Starting of breastfeeding
After an hour of birth	0.035	1.482	1.027	2.138
Within hour (reference category)
Exclusive breastfeeding
6 months (reference category)
Less than 6 months or one year and more than 1 year	<0.0001	2.100	1.450	3.039
Occupation
Employed	0.035	0.585	0.356	0.963
Housewife (reference category)
Elder siblings
One and more	0.001	1.923	1.326	2.788
No (reference category)
Feeding given by
Mostly mother (reference category)
Other	0.007	2.070	1.219	3.515
Nutritional status of children	0.006
Moderate malnutrition	0.939	1.024	0.562	1.866
Overweight	0.011	0.441	0.233	0.831
Severe malnutrition	0.052	1.578	0.996	2.499
Normal (reference category)