Inadequate Prenatal Visit and Home Delivery as Determinants of Perinatal Outcomes: Does Parity Matter?

Table 3

Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis of variables with adverse perinatal outcome in HUCSH & AGH, Southern Ethiopia 2018.

Variables	Adverse perinatal outcomes		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	P value
	Yes	No
Residence
Rural	47 (32.64)	97 (67.36)	1.77 (1.14, 2.75)	1.32 (0.72, 2.41)	0.36
Urban	68 (21.45)	249 (78.55)	1	1
Mothers’ occupation
Housewife	83 (28.23)	211 (71.77)	1.61 (0.89, 2.91)	1.22 (0.60, 2.44)	0.57
Government employee	15 (18.75)	65 (81.25)	0.95 (0.43, 2.05)	1.18 (0.49, 2.80)	0.70
Self-employed	17 (19.54)	70 (80.46)	1	1
Income
Lower tertile	50 (30.67)	113 (69.33)	1.65 (0.98, 2.77)	0.90 (0.45, 1.79)	0.76
Middle tertile	34 (22.52)	117 (77.48)	1.08 (0.62, 1.88)	0.79 (0.43, 1.47)	0.47
Upper tertile	31 (21.09)	116 (78.91)	1	1
Husband occupation
Farmer	57 (34.13)	110 (65.87)	2.17 (1.30, 3.62)	1.46 (0.73, 2.92)	0.28
Government employee	28 (20.29)	110 (79.71)	1.06 (0.60, 1.89)	1.15 (0.61, 1.47)	0.65
Self-employed	30 (19.23)	126 (80.77)	1	1
Parity
Low multipara	61 (20.07)	243 (79.93)	1	1	0.46
Grand multipara	54 (34.39)	103 (65.61)	2.08 (1.35, 3.21)	1.23 (0.70, 2.15)
Previous medical illness
Yes	12 (36.36)	21 (63.64)	1.80 (0.85, 3.79)	1.17 (0.49, 2.82)	0.71
No	103 (24.07)	325 (75.93)	1
Number of ANC visits
1-3	51 (39.23)	79 (60.77)	2.48 (1.57, 3.91)	1.74 (1.04, 2.92)	0.03
≥4	57 (20.65)	219 (79.35)	1	1
Place of delivery
Home	46 (36.22)	81 (63.78)	2.18 (1.39, 3.41)	1.87 (1.04, 3.33)	0.03
HI	69 (20.66)	265 (79.34)	1	1
Mode of delivery (before this birth)
Vaginal	108 (26.28)	303 (73.72)	1	1	0.15
Cesarean section	7 (14.00)	43 (86.00)	0.45 (0.19, 1.04)	0.50 (0.19, 1.28)
Newborn sex
Male	70 (28.93)	172 (71.07)	1.57 (1.02, 2.41)	1.32 (0.81, 2.13)	0.25
Female	45 (20.55)	174 (79.45)	1	1

AGH: Adare General Hospital; HUCSH: Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital; ANC: Antenatal Care Visits; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; COR: crude odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; HI: health institution; statistically significant at p value<0.05; 1 referent variable; Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit= 0.24.