Maternal anemia and baby birth size mediate the association between short birth interval and under-five undernutrition in Ethiopia: a generalized structural equation modeling approach

Table 2 The associations between short birth interval and undernutrition of children in Ethiopia, EDHS 2016

Variable	Stunting		Wasting		Underweight
Variable	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)^a	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI) ^a	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI) ^a
Short birth interval
No	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	1.40 (1.27, 1.54)*	1.49 (1.35, 1.66)*	1.33 (1.15, 1.53)*	1.05 (0.90, 1.23)	1.56 (1.41, 1.74)*	1.43 (1.28, 1.61)*

EDHS Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey, COR Crude Odds Ratio, AOR Adjusted Odds Ratio, CI Confidence Interval, Ref reference group; *P value < 0.001; **P value < 0.01; ***P value < 0.5; ^aThe models were adjusted for maternal age at the birth of the index child, maternal education, maternal occupation, wealth, place of residence, regions, and number of children ever born

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