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 6
Multiple and binary logistic regressions on factors associated with the practice level of midwives towards active management of the third stage of labor in governmental health institutions in the Tigray region, Ethiopia, 2018.
Variables
Practice
Crude OR
Adjusted OR (95% CI)
value
Good in practice
Poor in practice
Sex
Female
88 (72.7%)
127 (80.9%)
1
1
Male
33 (27.3%)
30 (19.1%)
1.587
1.020 (0.506, 2.058)
0.956
Workplace
Health center
35 (28.9%)
62 (39.5%)
1
1
Hospital
86 (71.1%)
95 (60.5%)
1.604
0.689 (0.346, 1.373)
0.290
Educational level
Diploma midwife
46 (38.0%)
110 (70.1%)
1
1
Degree midwife
75 (62.0%)
47 (29.9%)
3.816
3.811 (2.015, 7.210)
≤0.001
Marital status
Single
24 (19.8%)
45 (28.7%)
1
1
Married
91 (75.2%)
97 (61.8%)
1.759
1.772 (0.866, 3.626)
0.117
Divorced
4 (3.3%)
14 (8.9%)
0.583 (0.129, 2.639)
0.485
Widowed
2 (1.7%)
1 (0.6%)
2.545 (0.173, 37.422)
0.496
Training
No
50 (41.3%)
105 (66.9%)
1
1
Yes
71 (58.7%)
52 (33.1%)
2.867
2.591 (1.424, 4.714)
0.002
Knowledge level of midwives
Poor in knowledge
15 (12.4%)
93 (59.2%)
1
1
Good in knowledge
106 (87.6%)
64 (40.8%)
10.269
7.324 (3.739, 14.393)
≤0.001
N.B. 2 = reference category; significance at value < 0.05 in multivariate regression.
