Prevalence and Correlates of Herbal Medicine Use among Women Seeking Care for Infertility in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Table 3

Predictors of herbal medicine use among women seeking care for infertility.

Characteristics	Variables	COR (95% CL)	value	AOR (95% CL)	value
Age group	<30 years	1
	≥30 years	1.70 (0.90–3.22)	0.099	-
Religion	Islam	1	0.694
	Christianity	0.88 (0.47–1.66)		-
Marital status	Single/separated	1	0.395
	Married/cohabitate	1.79 (0.47–6.90)		-
Type of marriage	Polygamous	1	0.640
	Monogamous	0.73 (0.19–2.76)		-
Change of partner	No	1	0.396
	Yes	1.59 (0.55–4.62)		-
Duration of relationship	>10 yrs	1		1
	1–5 yrs	0.23 (0.05–0.96)	0.044	0.27 (0.04–1.59)	0.147
	6–10 yrs	0.36 (0.08–1.59)	0.177	0.31 (0.06–1.68)	0.173
Tribe	Others	1
	Mende	0.81 (0.37–1.78)	0.604	-
	Temne	1.09 (0.49–2.42)	0.826	-
	Fullah	0.31 (0.06–1.54)	0.154	-
Educational status	Tertiary	1		1
	Nonformal	6.30 (2.57–15.46)	<0.001	4.03 (1.38–11.76)	0.011
	Primary	7.33 (2.68–20.08)	<0.001	6.23 (2.02–19.23)	0.001
	Secondary	2.01 (0.78–5.19)	0.146	1.90 (0.62–5.85)	0.262
Employment status	Unemployed	1	0.953
	Employed	1.02 (0.47–2.20)		-
Partner with child/children from previous relationship	No	1	0.068
	Yes	1.87 (0.96–3.64)
Household income provider	Self	1
	Partner	0.99 (0.19–4.92)	0.988	-
	Both	0.71 (0.15–3.36)	0.669	-
	Others	0.00 (0.00)	0.999	-
Monthly income	1–3.5 million Leones	1	0.001	1
	<1 million	3.65 (1.74–7.64)		1.95 (0.70–5.42)	0.202
Distance from health facility	>10 km	1		-
	<5 km	0.15 (0.02–1.49)	0.105	-
	5–10 km	0.24 (0.02–2.44)	0.229	-
Presence of health problems	No	1
	Yes	0.85 (0.34–2.12)	0.726	-
Suffering from other reproductive health problems	No	1		1
	Yes	2.22 (1.15–4.31)	0.018	2.57 (1.13–5.83)	0.024
Reported emotional torture	No	1	0.353	-
	Yes	1.54 (0.62–3.80)		-
Barriers to accessing fertility care	No	1		1
	Yes	3.19 (1.65–6.16)	0.001	1.46 (0.61–3.49)	0.400
Visited a traditional medicine practitioner	No	1		1
	Yes	20.59 (2.57–165.24)	0.004	20.05 (2.10–192.28)	0.009
Duration of infertility	>24 months	1
	0–24 months	0.35 (0.12–1.03)	0.056	-
Previously pregnant	No	1		1
	Yes	2.17 (1.14–4.13)	0.018	2.32 (0.93–5.82)	0.072