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Table 3 Logistic regression analysis of pregnant mothers’ selected households and individual nutrition characteristics and anemia risk rural Ethiopia

From: Dietary diversity cutoff values predicting anemia varied between mid and term of pregnancy: a prospective cohort study

Maternal characteristics

Number (%)

Maternal anemia at term

COR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

1. Land size (hectare)

No land

133 (35.6)

1

1

< 1

136 (36.4)

0.57 (0.34, 0.96)*

0.60 (0.33, 1.09)

1–2

70 (18.7)

0.66 (0.35, 1.23)

0.77 (0.38, 1.54)

2+

35 (9.4)

0.66 (0.29, 1.46)

1.02 (0.42, 2.47)

2. Presence of radio in the HH

Yes

270 (72.6)

1

1

No

102 (27.4)

1.48 (0.89, 2.46)

1.93 (1.12, 3.39)*

3. Have mobile/cell phone in the HH

Yes

286 (76.5)

1

1

No

88 (23.5)

2.55 (1.56, 4.17)*

3.14 (1.75, 5.62)*

4. Have audiovisuals (e.g., TV) in the HH

Yes

119 (31.8)

1

1

No

255 (68.2)

1.37 (0.85, 2.21)

1.01 (0.57, 1.80)

5. Maternal educational status

No formal education

120 (32.1)

1

1

Primary

95 (25.4)

0.75 (0.43 , 1.31)

0.47 (0.25, 0.88)*

Primary+

159 (42.5)

1.35 (0.80, 2.26)

0.85 (0.46, 1.57)

6. MUAC (cm)

< 21 (SAM)

90 (24.1)

1

1

21–23 (MAM)

171 (45.7)

1.86 (1.10, 3.15)*

1.52 (0.75 , 3.11)

23+ (normal)

113 (30.2)

2.66 (1.46, 4.85)*

1.03 (0.43, 2.34)

7. Hemoglobin (g/dl) at enrollment

< 11 (anemic)

107 (28.6)

1

1

11+ (non-anemic)

267 (71.4)

17.68 (10.14, 30.80)

28.56 (14.33, 56.79)*

  1. COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; HH, household; MUAC, mid-upper arm circumference; SAM, sever acute malnutrition; MAM, moderate acute malnutrition
  2. Italics the significance level or P <0.05