Assessment of Midwife Knowledge, Practice, and Associated Factors towards Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor at Governmental Health Institutions in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia, 2018
Table 5
Multiple and binary logistic regressions on factors associated with knowledge of midwives towards AMTSL in governmental health institutions in the Tigray region, Ethiopia, 2018.
Variables
Knowledge
Crude OR
Adjusted OR (95% CI)
value
Good in knowledge
Poor in knowledge
Sex
Female
124 (72.9%)
91 (84.3%)
1
1
Male
46 (27.1%)
17 (15.7%)
1.986
1.518 (0.730, 3.155)
0.264
Workplace
Health center
47 (27.6%)
50 (46.3%)
1
1
Hospital
123 (72.4%)
58 (53.7%)
2.256
1.694 (0.841, 3.414)
0.140
Educational status
Diploma midwives
79 (46.5%)
77 (71.3%)
1
1
Degree midwives
91 (53.5%)
31 (28.7%)
2.861
1.393 (0.723, 2.682)
0.322
Training
No
77 (45.3%)
78 (72.2%)
1
1
Yes
93 (54.7%)
30 (27.8%)
3.140
2.119 (1.141, 3.3937)
0.017
Years of experience
0-4
66 (38.8%)
36 (33.3%)
1
1
5-9
69 (40.6%)
42 (38.9%)
0.636
1.154 (0.540, 2.464)
0.712
Greater than 9 years
35 (20.6%)
30 (27.8%)
0.942 (0.447, 1.983)
0.875
Reading materials
No
83 (48.8%)
63 (58.3%)
1
1
Yes
87 (51.2%)
45 (41.7%)
1.467
1.003 (0.511, 1.968)
0.993
Practice level
Poor in practice
64 (37.6%)
93 (86.1%)
1
1
Good in practice
106 (62.4%)
15 (13.9%)
10.269
8.089 (4.103, 15.950)
≤0.001
N.B. 1 = reference category; significance at value < 0.05 in multivariate regression.
