The relationship between under-five child death and maternal mental distress in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a community based comparative cross-sectional study

Shifa, Girma Temam; Ahmed, Ahmed Ali; Yalew, Alemayehu Worku

doi:10.1186/s12905-018-0537-9

Table 3 Independent association of maternal mental distress with child loss and other factors, Gamo Gofa, Ethiopia, 2014

From: The relationship between under-five child death and maternal mental distress in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a community based comparative cross-sectional study

Characteristics	Categories	COR	95% CI		AOR^a	95% CI
Exposure status	Un-exposed (mother with alive child)	Ref			Ref
Exposure status	Exposed (mother whose child is died)	1.61	1.15	2.25	1.84	1.11	3.04
Age of mother at birth		1.02	0.99	1.06	1.02	0.96	1.08
Ethnicity	Gamo	Ref			Ref
	Zeyse	0.50	0.10	2.46	0.34	0.03	3.71
	Wolayta	2.22	0.72	6.88	3.28	0.92	11.70
	Others	0.98	0.31	3.95	0.88	0.27	2.87
Maternal education	No formal education	Ref			Ref
	Grade1–6	1.16	0.67	1.99	*2.00*	*1.01*	*3.97*
	Grade7–8	0.94	0.43	2.06	2.17	0.88	5.36
	Above Grade9	0.70	0.32	1.53	1.86	0.66	5.30
Marital status	Married	Ref			Ref
	Single	0.85	0.26	2.79	0.50	0.09	2.61
	Other	1.15	0.47	2.81	1.17	0.36	3.82
Mother Occupation	House wife	Ref			Ref
	Farmer	0.49	0.21	1.15	0.68	0.26	1.73
	Gov’t employee	0.37	0.04	3.14	0.56	0.08	3.73
	Merchant	0.97	0.48	1.94	1.00	0.43	2.33
	Others	1.82	0.70	4.70	1.41	0.51	3.89
Wealth index	Poor	Ref			Ref
	Average	*0.47*	*0.26*	*0.84*	*0.41*	*0.21*	*0.79*
	Rich	*0.39*	*0.20*	*0.77*	*0.31*	*0.14*	*0.67*
Maternal Power	Poor	Ref			Ref
	Average	0.76	0.46	1.26	0.62	0.32	1.19
	Good	1.19	0.71	2.01	1.45	0.76	2.79
Ever beaten by her husband	Yes	Ref			Ref
Ever beaten by her husband	No	0.98	0.53	1.82	1.08	0.49	2.40
Mother has any medical illness	Yes	Ref			Ref
Mother has any medical illness	No	*0.42*	*0.23*	*0.76*	*0.36*	*0.18*	*0.73*
Place of seeking health care	Traditional	Ref			Ref
Place of seeking health care	Modern health service	*0.43*	*0.22*	*0.85*	*0.43*	*0.20*	*0.94*
Pregnant during survey	Yes	Ref			Ref
	No	0.75	0.38	1.47	0.65	0.32	1.34
	Unsure	0.80	0.18	3.60	0.41	0.10	1.63
How many child has		1.02	0.93	1.12	1.09	0.93	1.28
Place of delivery	Home	Ref			Ref
	Health post	0.98	0.36	2.63	0.52	0.17	1.61
	Higher health facility	0.87	0.47	1.60	0.58	0.25	1.37
Had Post-natal care during pregnancy of index child	Yes	Ref			Ref
Had Post-natal care during pregnancy of index child	No	1.00	0.58	1.73	0.54	0.25	1.18
Had ANC follow up during pregnancy of index child	Yes	Ref			Ref
Had ANC follow up during pregnancy of index child	No	*1.81*	*1.01*	*3.24*	*2.55*	*1.25*	*5.18*
Ever had child loss (including abortion & stillbirth) other than index child	Yes	Ref			Ref
	No	*0.54*	*0.34*	*0.87*	0.60	0.33	1.08
Had live birth after index child	Yes	Ref			Ref
Had live birth after index child	No	0.87	0.57	1.33	1.03	0.61	1.76

^aAdjusted for all variables in the table & bold/italicized values are statistically significant values at 0.05

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