Risk Factors for Vaginal Colonization and Relationship between Bacterial Vaginal Colonization and In-Hospital Outcomes in Women with Obstructed Labor in a Ugandan Regional Referral Hospital

Table 3

Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis of factors associated with vaginal colonization by a bacterial pathogen.

Characteristic	Univariable		Multivariable
	cOR (95% CI)	value	aOR (95% CI)	value
Number of hours in labor	1.02 (1.00–1.03)	0.03	1.02 (1.00–1.03)	0.04
Number of vaginal exams in labor	0.97 (0.87–1.08)	0.58	0.95 (0.84–1.07)	0.40
Multiparous	0.89 (0.60–1.32)	0.58	0.9 (0.41–8.95)	0.41
Formally employed	0.93 (0.53–1.64)	0.81	0.77 (0.40–1.09)	0.43
HIV-infected	0.65 (0.25–1.65)	0.36	0.88 (0.28–2.76)	0.83
Age (years)	0.99 (0.94–1.04)	0.59	1.0 (0.92–1.09)	0.99
Residence in Mbarara district	0.98 (0.52–1.83)	0.95	1.0 (0.51–2.00)	1.0

HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; CI: confidence intervals; OR: odds ratio; cOR: crude odds ratio; aOR: adjusted odds ratio. Tests of association between cohort characteristics and the presence or absence of vaginal colonization were performed using univariable or multivariable logistic regression analysis.