Knowledge related to umbilical cord care among mothers of neonates attending outpatient departments in Sherpur district, Bangladesh

Table 4.

Crude Odds Ratios (COR) ofSocio-Demographic Variables Associated with Knowledge Level on Umbilical CordCare Practices among Respondents (N = 193)

Socio-demographic variables Level of knowledge Crude Odds Ratios (COR) Log odds Standard Error of the COR 95% CI Lower (COR) 95% CI Upper (COR)

Good Poor

Age group 15-20 years 25 26 0.962 -0.038 0.078 0.824 1.121
21-26 years 28 32 0.875 -0.131 0.067 0.767 0.998

27-32 years 32 35 0.914 -0.088 0.060 0.813 1.028

33-38 years 9 6 1.500 0.379 0.278 0.870 2.585

Age of baby (Days) 1-14 46 45 1.022 0.022 0.044 0.938 1.114
15-28 48 54 0.889 -0.117 0.039 0.823 0.960

Religion Islam 74 76 0.974 -0.026 0.027 0.924 1.026
Hinduism 18 21 0.857 -0.150 0.103 0.700 1.049

Christianity 2 2 1.000 0.000 1.000 0.141 7.099

The number of children of the respondents 1 28 43 0.651 -0.423 0.059 0.580 0.731
2 39 39 1.000 0.000 0.051 0.904 1.106

3 16 13 1.231 0.201 0.139 0.936 1.618

4 7 3 2.333 0.762 0.476 0.918 5.933

5 3 1 3.000 0.847 1.333 0.220 40.931

6 1 0 inf 1.099 inf   inf

The level of education of the respondents No formal education 7 15 0.467 -0.726 0.210 0.309 0.704
Primary 13 23 0.565 -0.554 0.120 0.446 0.716

Secondary 36 41 0.878 -0.128 0.052 0.793 0.973

Higher Secondary 31 19 1.632 0.480 0.085 1.381 1.927

Graduate or above 7 1 7.000 1.609 1.143 0.745 65.751

Occupation of the respondents Housewife 59 85 0.694 -0.363 0.029 0.656 0.734
Service 32 10 3.200 1.130 0.131 2.474 4.139

Business 3 4 0.750 -0.251 0.583 0.239 2.353

Family type Nuclear 30 70 0.429 -0.838 0.048 0.390 0.470
Joint 64 29 2.207 0.782 0.050 2.000 2.435

Family size <5 22 53 0.415 -0.866 0.064 0.366 0.471
5 to 8 64 43 1.488 0.394 0.039 1.379 1.606

>8 8 3 2.667 0.887 0.458 1.086 6.548