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