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Table 4 Linear mixed model predicting birth weight among newborns delivered in West Gojjam Zone

From: Effects of guided counseling during pregnancy on birth weight of newborns in West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

Fixed effect

 

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Variables

Estimate (SE)

95% CI

Estimate (SE)

95% CI

Estimate (SE)

95% CI

Intercept

3.05 (0.035)

(2.98,3.12)

2.92 (0.027)

(2.87,2.98)

1.56 (0.239)

(1.09,2.04)

Intervention

  

0.261 (0.039)

(0.17,0.34)

0.257 (0.041)

(0.17,0.34)

Crop production

 Cereals

    

1.00

1.00

 Cereals & legume

    

0.001 (0.056)

(−0.111,0.114)

 Cereals, legume, vegetables & fruits

    

0.024 (0.049)

(−0.073,0.122)

 MUAC baseline

    

0.053 (0.009)

(0.03,0.07)

 Dietary practice baseline

    

0.180 (0.047)

(0.08,0.27)

 Being female

    

0.021 (0.036)

(−0.04,0.09)

 Increasing wealth

    

0.0001 (0.013)

(−0.02,0.02)

 Having decision making power

    

0.005 (0.039)

(−0.07,0.08)

 Piped water supply

    

0.062 (0.039)

(−0.01,0.15)

 Having formal education

    

0.045 (0.050)

(−0.05,0.14)

 Age

    

0.003 (0.003)

(−0.01,0.01)

Random effect

 Level two variance

0.0198 (0.008)

 

0.0009 (0.002)

 

0.0006 (0.001)

 

 ICC

0.0954

 

0.0047

 

0.0039

 

 AIC

651.034

 

629.991

 

594.473

 

 Number of parameters

3

 

5

 

16

 
  1. SE Standard error, CI Confidence interval, AIC Akaike information criterion, ICC Intra cluster correlation coefficient