Partner involvement in abortion trajectories and subsequent abortion safety in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

BMC Women's Health

Table 6 Results from multiple logistic regression of abortion safety (most unsafe vs. other) on respondent characteristics and two domains of partner involvement

	Nigeria (N = 1089)^a				Côte d'Ivoire (N = 333)
	Adjusted Odds Ratio	95% CI		p-value	Adjusted Odds Ratio	95% CI		p-value
Partner involved in decision to terminate
Yes	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
No	0.48	0.35	0.66	< 0.001	0.34	0.19	0.60	< 0.001
Partner involved in selecting method and/or source
Yes	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
No	0.53	0.39	0.72	< 0.001	0.65	0.32	1.32	0.234
Age at abortion
10–19	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
20–29	0.93	0.67	1.30	0.692	0.60	0.33	1.09	0.093
30 +	1.41	0.94	2.11	0.099	1.50	0.63	3.60	0.364
Marital status at abortion
Not married	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
Married	1.15	0.77	1.72	0.498	1.12	0.59	2.14	0.733
Residence at abortion^b
Rural	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
Urban	0.87	0.63	1.20	0.392	0.59	0.32	1.09	0.092
Highest level of school attended^c
None	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
Primary	0.70	0.40	1.21	0.202	0.85	0.47	1.55	0.604
Secondary	1.01	0.60	1.69	0.964	0.81	0.40	1.61	0.546
Higher	0.81	0.45	1.44	0.472	1.12	0.30	4.12	0.869
Parity at abortion
0	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
1 +	0.75	0.51	1.12	0.162	1.41	0.75	2.64	0.286
Wealth tertile at interview
Low	ref	–	–	–	ref	–	–	–
Middle	0.62	0.42	0.91	0.014	0.96	0.51	1.83	0.907
High	0.51	0.32	0.79	0.003	0.30	0.14	0.61	0.001
State at interview
Anambra	ref	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Kaduna	0.81	0.50	1.32	0.420	–	–	–	–
Lagos	0.48	0.32	0.74	0.001	–	–	–	–
Nasarawa	0.48	0.29	0.81	0.005	–	–	–	–
Rivers	0.59	0.39	0.88	0.011	–	–	–	–
Taraba	0.67	0.35	1.30	0.239	–	–	–	–

Bolded p-values indicate significance at p < 0.05
Both models demonstrated goodness of fit (Nigeria: Hosmer–Lemeshow chi-square with 8df = 4.36, p = 0.823; Côte d’Ivoire: Hosmer–Lemeshow chi-square with 8df = 2.50, p = 0.962)
^aNs do not match Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 due to missingness
^bCreated based on respondent report of having lived in a village (rural) or a town or city (urban) at the time of the abortion
^cBased on level of school attending at time of abortion, if attending, or highest level attended according to baseline survey interview. This assumes that respondents who were not attending school at the time of their abortion had already completed their schooling

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