Table 6 Health education and socio-demographic variables predicting knowledge on birth preparedness (n = 257)
Variables | Model 1 | Model 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
B | SEB | β | B | SEB | β | |
Health Education | ||||||
Control (REF) | ||||||
Intervention | 32.917 | 1.697 | 0.772*** | 33.659 | 1.770 | 0.789*** |
Age of participant | −0.209 | 0.142 | −0.102 | |||
Gestational age of wife | 1.276 | 1.531 | 0.116 | |||
Number of wives | −1.393 | 1.860 | −0.041 | |||
Number of children | −1.464 | 0.928 | −0.125 | |||
Highest level of education | ||||||
None | −1.343 | 5.779 | −0.010 | |||
Informal Arabic | −3.127 | 4.651 | −0.030 | |||
Basic | 8.212 | 11.570 | 0.041 | |||
Secondary | 8.060 | 3.380 | 0.137* | |||
Tertiary (REF) | ||||||
Place of residence | ||||||
Urban (REF) | ||||||
Rural | −3.112 | 1.880 | −0.073 | |||
Tribe | ||||||
Mandinka | −3.905 | 5.546 | −0.077 | |||
Wollof | 3.712 | 5.211 | −0.087 | |||
Fulla | −3.522 | 5.258 | −0.074 | |||
Jola | 2.395 | 4.253 | 0.007 | |||
Others (REF) | ||||||
Type of work | ||||||
Not working | 14.025 | 8.260 | 0.100 | |||
Farmer | −0.986 | 2.163 | −0.021 | |||
Civil servant | 0.134 | 3.286 | 0.003 | |||
Others (REF) | ||||||
Place of delivery of last child | ||||||
No child yet (REF) | ||||||
Health facility | 4.458 | 4.024 | 0.091 | |||
Home | 4.874 | 4.556 | 0.080 | |||
R2 | 0.5967 | 0.646 | ||||
F for change in R2 | 376.108*** | 17.656*** | ||||