Potential factors associated with institutional childbirth among women in rural villages of Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a preliminary study

Table 2 Crude and adjusted odds ratios of having institutional childbirth related to factors of women

	Crude OR (95% CI) N = 302^a	Adjusted OR (95% CI)^b N = 295
Maternal age (years)
Less than 20	1.00	-^c
20–24	1.40 (0.57–3.41)
25–29	0.87 (0.37–2.03)
30–34	1.03 (0.42–2.50)
35 and more	0.52 (0.21–1.30)
Maternal educational attainment
Secondary and above	1.00	1.00
Primary	0.32 (0.16–0.64)	0.41 (0.19–0.89)
No formal education	0.18 (0.08–0.38)	0.24 (0.10–0.57)
Work of woman and house owner
At least one self-employed/Employed	1.00	-^c
Both Unemployed/Unpaid family work/	0.64 (0.39–1.05)
Ethnicity of women
Lao	1.00	-^c
Minority	0.29 (0.10–0.85)
Distance from the nearest facility (km)
Less than 1	1.00	1.00
1–5	0.28 (0.15–0.55)	0.33 (0.16–0.68)
6 and more	0.22 (0.12–0.43)	0.27 (0.13–0.54)
Number of children
One or two	1.00	1.00
Three and more	0.41 (0.25–0.67)	0.49 (0.28–0.86)
Maternal knowledge about birth complications
Know	1.00	1.00
Do not know	0.24 (0.13–0.45)	0.27 (0.14–0.54)
Antenatal care during pregnancy
Received at least once	1.00	- ^c
Never	0.05 (0.01–0.39)

CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio
^aExcluded those with missing data in the Table 1
^bAdjusted for all other variables in the table except maternal age, work of woman and house owner, ethnicity of women and antenatal care during pregnancy
^cVariable omitted in a stepwise variable selection and not included in the multivariate analysis

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