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Table 3 Adjusted odds ratios (AORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for predictors of current use of modern contraceptive methods among young married women in Dosso region, Niger 2016

From: Can community health workers increase modern contraceptive use among young married women? A cross-sectional study in rural Niger

 

AORs†

95% CI

P-value

Independent variable

 Visited by relais in the last three months (ref = no)

  Yes

1.94

1.07,3.51

0.03*

Sociodemographic variables

 Parity (continuous)

 

1.94

1.59,2.37

< 0.001***

 Husband’s education (ref = none)

  Quranic school

1.70

0.92,3.11

0.09

  Government school

1.33

0.78,2.27

0.29

 Worked in the last 12 months (ref = no)

  Yes

0.62

0.39,0.98

0.04*

 District (ref = Dosso)

  Doutchi

2.76

1.55,4.92

0.001**

  Loga

2.13

1.16,3.89

0.01*

  1. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
  2. †Adjusted for all other covariates in the model. Covariates removed based on p-value of > 0.20 in bivariate chi-square tests include: husband’s number of wives, husband spent a period longer than 3 months away from village, household assets. Tribe was excluded because of collinearity with district. Covariates removed based on backwards model selection from full adjusted model with p > 0.10 include: wife’s age, husband’s age, wife’s schooling, husband spends majority of nights at wife’s compound, and food insecurity
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