First trimester medication use in pregnancy in Cameroon: a multi-hospital survey

Table 3 Logistic regression model for predicting consumption of non-pregnancy related orthodox medication (N=795)

Variables	Crude model					Adjusted model
	Exposed (%)	OR	95% C.I		P-value	OR	95% C.I		P-value
	Exposed (%)	OR	Lower	Upper	P-value	OR	Lower	Upper	P-value
Health unit(20)^b					0.000^a				0.000^a
Maternal age (years)					0.095^a				0.049^a
18-25	71.3	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
13-17	53.7	0.5	0.2	0.9		0.1	0.0	0.8
26-35	66.3	0.8	0.6	1.1		0.6	0.4	1.1
36-45	71.8	1.0	0.5	2.1		1.3	0.5	3.8
Parity					0.107^a				0.006^a
0	68.7	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
1	70.8	1.1	0.8	1.6		2.9	1.0	8.6
2	71.7	1.2	0.8	1.8		4.0	1.3	12.7
≥3	59.2	0.7	0.4	1.0		1.5	0.5	4.9
Gestational age at ANC booking					0.000^a				0.001^a
13 - 24 weeks	65.8	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
< 13 weeks	83.9	2.7	1.8	4.1		2.6	1.3	5.2
25 - 28 weeks	52.2	0.6	0.2	1.3		1.6	0.4	6.4
Not registered for ANC	36.4	0.3	0.2	0.6		0.3	0.1	0.8
Illness during first trimester					0.000^a				0.000^a
No	32.8	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
Yes	79.4	7.9	5.5	11.3		11.1	6.0	20.4
Opinion on safety of orthodox medication					0.180^a				0.078^a
Yes, it is always safe	67.2	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
Yes, safe but depends	75.2	1.5	1.0	2.2		0.7	0.4	1.3
No, never safe	66.7	1.0	0.4	2.5		0.1	0.0	0.8
I don't know	62.1	0.8	0.5	1.4		0.5	0.2	1.3

^a Overall statistical significance of variable within model
^b See Additional file 2 for complete table showing statistics for all health units
OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, r Rural hospital, u Urban hospital, p Private hospital, g Government hopsital

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