Women’s empowerment and uptake of sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy: results from a cross-sectional baseline survey in the Lake endemic region, Kenya

Table 2 Crude and adjusted odds ratios from bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model showing factors associated with optimal uptake of IPTp-SP

	Model I		Model II		Model III
	COR [95% CI]	P-value	AOR [95% CI]	P-value	AOR [95% CI]	P-value
Decision-making power
Low^a	1.00		1.00		1.00
Moderate	2.21 [1.63, 3.01]	0.000	2.20 [1.54, 3.14]	0.000	2.11 [1.47, 3.04]	0.000
High	2.52 [2.06, 3.08]	0.000	2.25 [1.80, 2.80]	0.000	2.33 [1.81, 3.01]	0.000
Control of productive assets
Low^a	1.00		1.00		1.00
Moderate	1.47 [0.70, 3.05]	0.298	1.45 [0.68, 3.10]	0.323	1.60 [0.76, 3.38]	0.211
High	1.65 [1.45, 1.89]	0.000	1.25 [0.96, 1.64]	0.100	1.20 [0.90, 1.60]	0.210
Level of education
No schooling or some primary^a	1.00		1.00		1.00
Primary completed	1.20 [0.87, 1.66]	0.262	1.29 [0.97, 1.73]	0.081	1.25 [1.00, 1.57]	0.052
Secondary completed	0.96 [0.58, 1.58]	0.860	1.20 [0.61, 2.39]	0.590	1.10 [0.52, 2.34]	0.799
Tertiary	1.52 [1.14, 2.01]	0.005	1.59 [1.18, 2.13]	0.003	1.51 [1.10, 2.06]	0.012
Work status
Unemployed^a	1.00		1.00		1.00
Employed	1.22 [1.02, 1.46]	0.030	0.83 [0.60, 1.14]	0.238	0.80 [0.60, 1.05]	0.107
Knowledge of MiP prevention
Low^a			1.00		1.00
Moderate			0.71 [0.48, 1.04]	0.078	0.72 [0.49, 1.05]	0.086
High			1.14 [0.68, 1.93]	0.611	1.13 [0.70, 1.82]	0.598
Age
15–24^a			1.00		1.00
25–34			0.95 [0.65, 1.38]	0.769	0.88 [0.62, 1.25]	0.475
35–49			1.26 [0.65, 2.44]	0.492	1.15 [0.60, 2.18]	0.670
Marital status
Not married^a			1.00		1.00
Married			0.62 [0.45, 0.87]	0.006	0.65 [0.44, 0.97]	0.038
Gravidity
One^a			1.00		1.00
Two			1.30 [0.86, 1.96]	0.201	1.40 [0.93, 2.12]	0.104
Three			2.83 [0.77, 10.33]	0.113	3.15 [0.97, 10.22]	0.055
Four or more			1.74 [1.15, 2.60]	0.011	2.07 [1.49, 2.87]	0.000
Number of ANC visits
< 4 times					1.00
> 4 times					2.80 [2.42, 3.24]	0.000

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