Formula-feeding practice and associated factors among urban and rural mothers with infants 0–6 months of age: a comparative study in Jimma zone Western Ethiopia

Table 6 Bivariate and multivariate analysis of formula-feeding practice among mothers living in the rural areas, Jimma zone, January, 2016

Variables	Formula-feeding practice		COR(95% CI)	AOR(95% CI)
	No (N = 238)	Yes (N = 115)
	N [%]	N [%]
Mother /Care taker age
15–24	45 [76.3]	14 [23.7]	1.216[.515–2.875]
25–34	156 [64.2]	87 [3.8]	.678[.348–1.32]
35–45	37 [72.5]	14 [27.5]	1.00
Sex of the infant
Male	121 [68]	57 [32]	1.05[.67–1.64]
Female	117 [66.9]	58 [33.1]	1.00
Educational status of Mother
Illiterate	109 [36.6]	189 [63.4]	.212 [.088–.512]	.186[.072–.481]
Read and write	6 [10.9]	49 [89.1]	1
Ethnicity
Oromo	216 [67.3]	105 [32.7]	1.00
Amhara	4 [50]	4 [50]	.486 [.119–1.82]
Others	18 [75]	6 [25]	1.45 [.562–3.78]
Mother occupation
Farmer	124 [75.6]	40 [24.4]	1.00	1.00
House wife	105 [59]	73 [41]	.464 [.29–.739]*	0.405[.243-.675]
Governmental	9 [81.8]	2 [18.2]	1.452 [.30–6.99]	0.583[.108–3.159]
Employee
ANC visit
Yes	210 [68]	99 [86.1]	1.00
No	28 [11.8]	16 [13.9]	.825 [0.427–1.595]
PNC visit
Yes	171 [71.8]	73 [63.5]	1.00
No	67 [28.2]	42 [36.5]	.681 [.424–1.093]
Place of delivery
Home	131 [55.3]	35 [30.4]	2.825 [1.761–4.531]*	399[.069–2.326]
Health facility	106 [44.7]	80 [69.6]	1.00
Birth attendants
Health worker	131 [55.3]	80 [69.5]	1.00	1.00
TTBA/TBA	21 [8.8]	8 [7]	2.039 [.858–4.893]	6.892[1.103–43.061] *
Relative/Friends.	114 [39.9]	27 [23.5]	3.279 [1.967–5.468]*	8.702[1.437–52.709] *
Awareness about formula feeding
Yes	172 [72.3]	50 [43.5]	1.00
No	66 [27.7]	65 [56.5]	3.38 [2.127–5.395]*	.401[.237–.677] *
Attitude towards formula feeding
Positive	125 [53.4]	67 [58.3]	1.00
Negative	111 [46.6]	48 [41.7]	1.220 [.778–1.913]
Social pressure			0.831 [.784–.881]*	.837[.780–.898]*

ANC Antenatal Care, AOR Adjusted odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, COR Crude odds ratio, PNC Postnatal care, TBA Traditional birth attendant, TTBA Trained traditional birth attendant; 1: referent; *significant at p value< 0.05
All variables with statistical significance have been made in bold face

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