Table 7 Health education and socio-demographic variables predicting the level of spousal participation in birth preparedness (N = 257)
Variables | Model 1 | Model 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
B | SEB | β | B | SEB | β | |
Health Education | ||||||
No (control) REF | ||||||
Yes (intervention) | 3.467 | 0.152 | 0.820*** | 3.396 | 0.159 | 0.803*** |
Age of participant | −0.017 | 0.013 | −0.085 | |||
Gestational age of wife | 0.253 | 0.168 | 0.765 | |||
Age of last child | 0.048 | 0.082 | 0.031 | |||
Number of wives | −0.122 | 0.167 | −0.036 | |||
Number of children | −0.176 | 0.083 | −0.152* | |||
Level of education | ||||||
None | −0.381 | 0.518 | −0.029 | |||
Informal Arabic | 0.673 | 0.417 | 0.065 | |||
Basic | 0.136 | 0.303 | 0.023 | |||
Secondary | 3.001 | 1.037 | 0.153* | |||
Tertiary (REF) | ||||||
Place of residence | ||||||
Urban (REF) | ||||||
Rural | −0.083 | 0.169 | −0.020 | |||
Tribe | ||||||
Mandinka | 0.843 | 0.498 | 0.127 | |||
Wollof | 1.113 | 0.468 | 0.113 | |||
Fulla | 0.875 | 0.473 | 0.126 | |||
Jola | 2.483 | 1.281 | 0.073 | |||
Others (REF) | ||||||
Type of work | ||||||
Not working | −0.856 | 0.742 | − 0.061 | |||
Farmer | −0.024 | 0.194 | −0.005 | |||
Civil servant | 0.578 | 0.295 | 0.112 | |||
Others (REF) | ||||||
Place of delivery of last child | ||||||
No child yet (REF) | ||||||
Health facility | 0.447 | 0.362 | 0.092 | |||
Home | −0.555 | 0.476 | − 0.069 | |||
R2 | 0.672 | 0.710 | ||||
F for change in R2 | 522.414*** | 23.616*** | ||||