Appropriate Weaning Practice and Associated Factors among Infants and Young Children in Northwest Ethiopia

Table 4

Factors associated with weaning practice in Feres Bet Town, Ethiopia, 2016.

	Appropriate weaning practice		OR (95% CI)
	Yes	NO	COR [CI]	AOR [CI]
Maternal education
No formal schooling	12	115	1	1
Primary education	9	47	1.83 [0.72, 4.64]	1.701 [0.42, 0.74]
Secondary and above	63	105	5.75 [2.93, 11.25]	1.028 [0.26, 0.99]
Occupation
Housewife	33	138	1	1
Self-employed	6	83	0.30 [0.12, 0.75]	1.24 [0.34, 4.45]
Gov’t employee	40	28	5.97 [3.23, 11.04]	2.08 [0.59, 7.376]
Others	5	18	1.16 [0.40, 3.35]	3.64 [0.59, 22.13]
Family size
≤3	45	115	1	1
≥4	39	152	0.65 [0.40, 1.07]	0.28
Husband education
No formal schooling	9	78	1	1
Primary education	5	42	1.03 [0.32, 3.27]	0.50 [0.11, 2.17]
Secondary and above	66	76	7.52 [3.50, 16.1]	1.33 [0.33, 5.24]
Husband occupation
Self-employed and others	19	148	1	1
Governmental employee	61	48	9.89 [5.38, 18.20]	6.85
Child age
6–8	6	47	1	1
9–11	12	24	3.92 [1.30, 11.72]	7.04
12–23	66	196	2.64 [1.07, 6.45]	5.35
Parity
Primipara	55	112	1	1
Multipara	29	155	11.62 [6.27, 21.56]	1.33 [0.46, 3.79]
ANC
No	5	44	1	1
Yes	79	223	3.11 [1.19, 8.14]	0.42 [0.10, 1.75]
Place of Delivery
Home	9	87	1	1
Health Institution	75	179	4.05 [1.93, 8.46]	1.61 [0.55, 4.71]
PNC
No	24	56	1	1
Yes	60	211	1.50 [0.863, 2.63]	0.65 [0.28, 1.48]
Weaning advice
No	75	144	1	1
Yes	9	123	7.11 [3.42, 14.80]	4.38

NB: associated, COR: crude odds ratio, and AOR: adjusted odds ratio.