Knowledge of and Adherence to Anaemia Prevention Strategies among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care Facilities in Juaboso District in Western-North Region, Ghana

Table 2

Associations between knowledge of anaemia and demographic characteristics.

Variables	Knowledge of anaemia		OR (95% CI) value		AOR (95% CI) value
	(86.5%)	(13.5%)
Subdistrict
Juaboso	136 (83.4)	27 (16.6)	1	0.003	1
Bonsu	134 (88.2)	18 (11.8)	0.49 (2.01-8.95)		0.41 (2.31-8.81) 0.004
Jato	116 (83.5)	23 (16.5)	0.71 (1.89-7.43)		0.76 (1.96-7.18) 0.002
Asempaneye	131 (91.0)	13 (9.0)	0.23 (2.15-9.30)		0.24 (2.16-9.83) 0.003
Age-group (years)
10–19	53 (73.6)	19 (26.4)	1	0.258
20–29	244 (92.1)	21 (7.9)	0.54 (0.04-7.10)
30–39	172 (88.7)	22 (11.3)	0.67 (0.11-6.88)
≥40	48 (71.6)	19 (28.4)	1.72 (0.02-3.48)
Educational status
None	105 (96.3)	4 (3.7)	1	0.002	1
Basic	240 (92.0)	21 (8.0)	2.34 (1.25-5.62)		1.78 (1.89-5.37) 0.001
Secondary	126 (81.3)	29 (18.7)	4.23 (2.33-9.89)		4.22 (2.23-9.16) 0.002
Tertiary	46 (63.0)	27 (37.0)	12.31 (10.24-17.98)		10.43 (6.14-15.63) 0.002
Marital status
Legally married	424 (90.2)	46 (9.8)	1	0.364
Cohabitation	93 (72.7)	35 (27.3)	3.59 (1.03-7.23)
Religion
Christianity	375 (91.2)	36 (8.8)	1	0.347
Muslim	94 (78.3)	26 (21.7)	5.23 (3.11-8.81)
Traditionalist	48 (71.6)	19 (28.4)	7.72 (4.30-11.33)
Ethnicity
Akan	311 (92.6)	25 (7.4)	1	0.063
Ewe	62 (78.5)	17 (21.5)	3.84 (0.51-6.61)
Ga-Adangbe	45 (71.4)	18 (28.6)	4.57 (0.33-8.15)
Kussase	99 (82.5)	21 (17.5)	2.46 (1.60-4.79)
Occupation
Unemployed	108 (90.8)	11 (9.2)	1	<0.001	1
Nonformal jobs	359 (88.4)	47 (11.6)	2.48 (2.04-6.37)		2.18 (1.07-6.69) 0.001
Formal jobs	50 (68.5)	23 (31.5)	18.09 (5.42-25.28)		15.14 (13.57-18.43) <0.001
Gestational age of the pregnancy
1^st trimester	133 (91.1)	13 (8.9)	1	0.736
2^nd trimester	230 (86.1)	37 (13.9)	2.25 (0.84-6.17)
3^rd trimester	154 (83.2)	31 (16.8)	2.62 (0.34-7.34)
Parity
0	47 (92.2)	4 (7.8)	1	0.682
1	360 (92.1)	31 (7.9)	1.67 (0.34-8.76)
2	74 (73.3)	27 (26.7)	3.74 (0.23-9.82)
≥3	36 (65.5)	19 (34.5)	6.93 (0.19-9.14)