Relationship between caesarean section and breastfeeding: evidence from the 2013 Turkey demographic and health survey

Table 4 Logistic regression analysis of breastfeeding, sociodemographic, and delivery-related characteristics of primiparae

	Non-EIBF^a			Non-EBF^b
	OR^c	95% CI^d	P	OR	95% CI	P
Sociodemographics
Age	0.96	0.74–1.44	0.548	1.08	0.93–1.25	0.331
Educational level						0.917
No education-some primary school	1	Reference		1	Reference
Primary school-some secondary school	0.56	0.33–0.97	0.038	1.00	0.57–1.76	0.99
Secondary school and university	0.53	0.29–0.99	0.047	1.08	0.57–2.03	0.813
Wealth index			0.636			0.762
Poorest	1	Reference		1	Reference
Poor	1.05	0.63–1.75	0.848	1.40	0.82–2.38	0.214
Middle	0.74	0.41–1.32	0.301	1.35	0.74–2.45	0.325
Rich	0.93	0.49–1.77	0.835	1.46	0.76–2.80	0.261
Richest	0.94	0.47–1.89	0.864	1.31	0.64–2.66	0.460
Place of residence
Rural	1	Reference		1	Reference
Urban	0.91	0.60–1.40	0.670	1.20	0.78–1.85	0.406
Residential region			0.145			0.712
West	1	Reference		1	Reference
South	0.93	0.55–1.56	0.799	0.81	0.47–1.37	0.422
Central	1.07	0.67–1.70	0.782	1.00	0.63–1.58	0.993
North	1.24	0.77–2.01	0.379	1.19	0.74–1.92	0.469
East	1.62	1.03–2.57	0.038	1.09	0.69–1.73	0.707
Occupation
Working	1	Reference		1	Reference
Not working	1.03	0.74–1.44	0.864	1.07	0.76–1.50	0.703
Delivery-related characteristics
Place of delivery
Public hospital	1	Reference		1	Reference
Private hospital	0.93	0.66–1.30	0.664	0.83	0.59–1.16	0.279
Mode of delivery
VD^e	1	Reference		1	Reference
C/S^f	2.07	1.50–2.87	< 0.001	1.94	1.40–2.67	< 0.001
Sex of newborn
Girl	1	Reference		1	Reference
Boy	1.12	0.83–1.50	0.472	1.16	0.86–1.56	0.339

^aNon-EIBF: Initiation of breastfeeding ≥ 1 h following birth or no breastfeeding
^bNon-EBF: Any nutrition other than breast milk in the first three days following birth or no breastfeeding
^cOdds ratio
^dConfidence interval
^eVaginal delivery
^fCaesarean section

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