Mistreatment of women in public health facilities of Ethiopia

Table 4 Logistic regression analysis of socio-demographic variables of women and Environmental characteristics on the reported mistreatment of women

	Bi-variable			Multivariable
Mistreatment	OR	[95% CI]	P-value	aOR	[95% CI]	P-value
Age category (ref: < 25)
25–34	1.51	0.73,3.11	0.266	1.00	0.47,2.13	0.999
35+	0.68	0.23,2.04	0.491	0.22	0.06,0.73	0.014*
Marital status (ref: Currently married)
Single or divorced	1.75	0.18,17.5	0.633
Parity (Ref. 1)
2 to 3	0.62	0.28,1.37	0.239	0.94	0.44,1.98	0.867
4+	1.80	0.75,4.33	0.189	3.36	1.22,9.23	0.019*
Education level (ref: TVET/College/University.)
informal/no education	1.96	0.05,81.71	0.724
Primary (1–8)	1.72	0.41,7.26	0.462
Secondary	0.66	0.16,2.67	0.557
Religion (ref: Orthodox Christian)
Muslim	3.24	0.95,11.13	0.061	3.30	1.4,7.77	0.006*
other Christians (Prot., catholic)	1.39	0.32,6.11	0.662	1.61	0.63,4.09	0.317
Facility (ref: Health center)
Hospitals	9.63	1.25,74.26	0.03	2.09	0.92,4.76	0.077
Region
igray	2.04	0.11,36.56	0.63	1.21	0.35,4.2	0.759
Amhara	0.88	0.12,6.65	0.903	1.67	0.7,4.01	0.248
SNNPR	0.09	0.01,0.7	0.021	0.19	0.08,0.44	< 0.001*
Residence (ref: rural)
Urban	1.26	0.52,3.04	0.607
ANC visits (ref. < 4)
4+	1.69	0.78,3.67	0.183	1.26	0.67,2.38	0.47
Time from childbirth to interview (ref: First week)
1–6 weeks	0.37	0.12,1.12	0.079	0.37	0.15,0.9	0.028*
7–12 weeks	0.66	0.21,2.04	0.470	0.88	0.35,2.21	0.779
Childbirth time (ref. night)
Day time	1.31	0.66,2.59	0.434
Monthly childbirth per MNH Staff (Ref. > 17)
Less than 17	5.46	0.97,30.62	0.054	3.63	1.9,6.93	< 0.001*
MNH staff trained in BEmONC (Ref. < 50%)
50% or more	3.41	0.62,18.69	0.157	1.45	0.75,2.82	0.27
Policy of facility tour for pregnant women (ref. yes)
No	6.74	1.23,37.02	0.028	1.72	0.89,3.32	0.11
Policy of anonymous (ref. yes)
No	3.27	0.2,52.57	0.402

* Ref: Reference group. aOR: Adjusted odds ratio, * Statistically significant at Alpha = 0.05

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