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

Table 5 Logistic regression model for predicting consumption of anti-infectives (N=795)

	Crude model					Adjusted model
Variables	Exposed (%)	OR	95% C.I		P-value	OR	95% C.I		P-value
Variables	Exposed (%)	OR	Lower	Upper	P-value	OR	Lower	Upper	P-value
Health unit(20)^b					0.000^a				0.001^a
Gestational age at ANC booking					0.00^a				0.000^a
13 - 24 weeks	42.2	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
< 13 weeks	62.8	2.3	1.7			2.7	1.6	4.5
25 - 28 weeks	17.4	0.3	0.1			0.6	0.1	2.4
Not registered for ANC	11.4	0.2	0.1			0.3	0.1	0.9
Illness during first trimester
No	20.6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	ref
Yes	52.5	4.2	2.9	6.3	0.000^a	3.7	2.1	6.4	0.000^a
Opinion on safety of orthodox medication					0.098^a				0.056^a
Yes, it is always safe	46.6	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	ref
Yes, safe but depends	45.9	1.0	0.7	1.4		0.6	0.4	1.1
No, never safe	33.3	0.6	0.2	1.4		0.2	0.0	1.2
I don't know	31.8	0.5	0.3	0.9		0.4	0.2	1.0

^aOverall 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 hospital

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