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

Table 3

Associations between adherence to anaemia prevention strategies and general characteristics and knowledge on anaemia.

Variables	Adherence to anaemia prevention strategies		OR (95% CI) value		AOR (95% CI) value
	Partial adherence 364 (60.9)	Complete adherence 234 (39.1)
Subdistrict
Juaboso	98 (60.1)	65 (39.9)	1	0.123
Bonsu	92 (60.5)	60 (39.5)	0.81 (0.03-8.76)
Jato	83 (59.7)	56 (40.3)	1.78 (0.04-5.84)
Asempaneye	91 (63.2)	53 (36.8)	0.65 (0.05-7.51)
Age-group (years)
10–19	61 (84.7)	11 (15.3)	1	0.237
20–29	160 (60.4)	105 (39.6)	4.73 (0.26-8.47)
30–39	101 (52.1)	93 (47.9)	6.65 (0.22-10.58)
≥40	42 (62.7)	25 (37.3)	4.54 (0.01-9.29)
Educational status
None	98 (89.9)	11 (10.1)	1	0.371
Basic	201 (77.0)	60 (23.0)	3.29 (0.23-7.67)
Secondary	58 (37.4)	97 (62.6)	7.57 (0.11-11.32)
Tertiary	7 (9.6)	66 (90.4)	8.24 (0.64-14.56)
Marital status
Legally married	262 (55.7)	208 (44.3)	1	0.421
Cohabitation	102 (79.7)	26 (20.3)	0.48 (0.07-11.43)
Religion
Christianity	248 (60.3)	163 (39.7)	1	0.394
Muslim	52 (43.3)	68 (56.7)	2.12 (0.03-4.45)
Traditionalist	64 (95.5)	3 (4.5)	0.32 (0.02-11.41)
Ethnicity
Akan	181 (53.9)	155 (46.1)	1	0.001	1
Ewe	51 (64.6)	28 (35.4)	0.69 (0.01-0.89)		0.68 (0.02-0.87) 0.001
Ga-Adangbe	53 (84.1)	10 (15.9)	0.51 (0.07-0.91)		0.53 (0.09-0.90) 0.002
Kussase	79 (65.8)	41 (34.2)	0.67 (0.06-0.92)		0.61 (0.04-0.92) 0.001
Occupation
Unemployed	76 (63.9)	43 (36.1)	1	0.321
Nonformal jobs	274 (67.5)	132 (32.5)	0.07 (0.13-2.43)
Formal jobs	14 (19.2)	59 (80.8)	3.21 (0.28-7.25)
Gestational age of the pregnancy
1^st trimester	89 (61.0)	57 (39.0)	1	0.408
2^nd trimester	169 (63.3)	98 (36.7)	0.72 (0.19-8.03)
3^rd trimester	106 (57.3)	79 (42.7)	1.94 (0.21-3.67)
Parity
0	39 (76.5)	12 (23.5)	1	0.421
1	280 (71.6)	111 (28.4)	1.67 (0.17-3.92)
2	41 (40.6)	60 (59.4)	3.34 (0.62-4.27)
≥3	4 (7.3)	51 (92.7)	7.56 (0.41-9.18)
Knowledge of anaemia
Low/fair	355 (68.7)	162 (31.3)	1	0.001	1
High	9 (11.1)	72 (88.9)	4.12 (2.76-8.66)		3.88 (1.32-7.93) 0.001