Research Article
Factors Influencing Birth Preparedness in Rapti Municipality of Chitwan, Nepal
Table 4
Comparison between sociodemographic characteristics with birth preparation practices (
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| Characteristics | Birth preparation practice | value | Poor preparation ( (%)) | Better preparation ( (%)) |
| Age (years) | ≤20 | 5 (38.5) | 8 (61.5) | 0.003 | 21-35 | 29 (22.8) | 98 (77.2) | ≥36 | 14 (56.0) | 11 (44.0) | Religion | Hindu | 13 (16.9) | 64 (83.1) | <0.001 | Buddhists | 22 (32.4) | 46 (67.6) | Christian | 13 (65.0) | 7 (35.0) | Family type | Nuclear | 23 (22.1) | 81 (77.9) | <0.009 | Joint/extended | 25 (41.4) | 36 (58.6) | Education | Uneducated | 24 (52.2) | 22 (47.8) | <0.001 | Educated | 24 (20.16) | 95 (79.83) | | Husband’s education | Uneducated | 18 (60.0) | 12 (40.0) | <0.001 | Educated | 30 (22.2) | 105 (77.7) | Occupation | | Housewife/agriculture | 46 (29.9) | 108 (70.1) | 0.512 | Working women | 2 (18.2) | 9 (81.8) | Age at marriage (years) | | <20 | 45 (40.9) | 65 (59.1) | <0.001 | ≥20 | 3 (5.5) | 52 (94.5) | Parity | | | | Single | 8 (14.5) | 47 (85.5) | <0.001 | Twice | 13 (21.3) | 48 (78.7) | 3 times | 11 (44.0) | 14 (56.0) | 4 and more times | 16 (66.7) | 8 (33.3) | No. of children | | | | Single | 8 (13.8) | 50 (86.2) | 0.011 | Two | 14 (22.6) | 48 (77.4) | Three to four | 11 (44.0) | 14 (56.0) |
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Chi-squared test, Fisher’s exact test. |