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

Table 5

Variables associated with diarrhea and cough/cold episodes in children age more than 6 months.

Variables	p value	OR	95% CI for OR
			Lower	Upper
Variables associated with diarrhea in children aged more than 6 months
Starting of breastfeeding
After an hour of birth	0.045	1.479	1.009	2.166
Within hour (reference category)
Nutritional status of children	0.029
Moderate malnutrition	0.758	0.909	0.497	1.666
Overweight	0.209	0.695	0.394	1.227
Severe malnutrition	0.018	1.853	1.111	3.089
Normal (reference category)
Duration of breastfeeding
Up to 2 years	0.026	2.506	1.114	5.638
2 years or more (reference category)
Variables associated with cough and cold in children aged more than 6 months
Hand washing before each feed
Always (reference category)
Sometimes	0.039	0.620	0.394	0.977
Nutritional status of child	0.115
Moderate malnutrition	0.590	1.221	0.590	2.527
Overweight	0.636	1.182	0.591	2.363
Severe malnutrition	0.015	2.135	1.159	3.933
Normal (reference category)
Washing utensils after each feed
After each feed (reference category)
Sometimes	0.001	0.457	0.282	0.740
Occupation
Employed	0.022	0.546	0.325	0.916
Housewife (reference category)