Husband Support Rises Women’s Awareness of Preconception Care in Northern Ethiopia

Table 4

Factors of women’s awareness on preconception care.

Variable	Awareness on preconception care		Odds ratio and 95% CI
	Aware (%)	Not aware (%)	Crude	Adjusted
Age (in years)
15–24	45 (100.0%)	43 (48.9%)	3.14 (1.84–5.33)
25–34	125 (45.1%)	152 (54.9%)	2.47 (1.65–3.68)
35–49	49 (25.0%)	147 (75.0%)	1	NS
Mother’s education
No education	39 (26.5%)	108 (73.5%)	0.23 (0.13–0.39)
Primary education	47 (37.0%)	80 (63.0%)	0.37 (0.21–0.64)
Secondary education	74 (38.4%)	117 (61.3%)	0.40 (0.24–0.66)
More than secondary	59 (61.5%)	37 (38.5%)	1	NS
Household income in ETB
<500	62 (47.0%)	70 (53.0%)	0.49 (0.46–1.45)
501–1000	62 (30.0%)	145 (70.0%)	0.39 (0.23–0.68)
1001–2000	58 (38.4%)	93 (61.6%)	0.57 (0.32–1.01)
≥2001	37 (52.1%)	34 (47.95%)	1	NS
Parity
Primipara (1 pregnancy)	52 (37.7%)	86 (62.3)	0.93 (0.62–1.38)
Multipara (2 and above)	167 (39.5%)	256 (60.5%)	1	NS
Gravidity
One pregnancy	43 (38.1%)	70 (61.9%)	1.51 (0.79–2.87)
2–4 pregnancies	156 (41.2%)	223 (58.5%)	1.71 (0.98–2.99)
5 and above pregnancies	20 (29%)	49 (71%)	1	NS
Previous family planning use
No	65 (29.5%)	155 (70.5%)	0.51 (0.36–0.73)
Yes	154 (45.2%)	187 (54.8%)	1	NS
Previous adverse pregnancy outcome
No	284 (64.1%)	159 (35.9%)	0.54 (0.36–0.82)	0.45 (0.25–0.83)
Yes	58 (49.2%)	60 (50.8%)	1	1
Having joint plan discussion with partner
No	79 (20.1%)	315 (79.9%)	0.05 (0.03–0.08)	0.15 (0.08–0.28)
Yes	140 (83.8%)	27 (16.2%)	1	1
Husband support
No	82 (20.4%)	320 (79.6%)	0.04 (0.03–0.07)	0.10 (0.05–0.19)
Yes	137 (86.2%)	22 (13.8%)	1	1
Having any chronic diseases
No	191 (36.6%)	331 (63.4%)	0.23 (0.11–0.47)
Yes	28 (71.8%)	11 (28.2%)	1	NS

value; value < 0.05; value < 0.001, NS: nonsignificant.