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Table 3 Place of last delivery and reasons, comparing grand multiparous (≥5 births) to parous women (1-4 births)

From: Reproductive health for refugees by refugees in Guinea III: maternal health

Variable

Parous (%)

G. Multipara (%)

ORc (95%CI)

All parous respondents:

n = 223 (100)

n = 136 b (100)

 

Place of last delivery

   Facility

144 (65)

105 (77)

 

   Homea, d,e,g

79 (35)

31 (23)

1.85 (1.06-3.23)

If last delivered at facility:

n = 144 (100)

n = 105 (100)

 

Reasons for facility delivery*,**

   Safetye,f

143 (99)

103 (98)

0.78 (0.11-5.37)

   Staff competenced,e,f

124 (86)

91 (88)

1.25 (0.49-3.19)

   Staff attituded-h

118 (82)

85 (81)

0.94 (0.48-1.83)

   Privacyd-f,h

113 (79)

72 (69)

0.54 (0.27-1.07)

   Referred by health staffd-f

79 (55)

57 (54)

0.97 (0.55-1.74)

   Nearness of facilityd-f,h

79 (55)

51 (48)

0.56 (0.31-1.04)

   Costsd-f

43 (30)

26 (25)

0.56 (0.28-1.12)

If last delivered at home:

n = 79 (100)

n = 31 (100)

 

Reasons for home delivery*,**

   Distance to facilitye,f

74 (94)

29 (94)

0.80 (0.11-5.83)

   Privacyd-f,h

44 (56)

16 (52)

0.56 (0.18-1.75)

   Staff competenced,e,h

25 (32)

14 (45)

1.51 (0.49-4.67)

   Costsd-f,h

23 (29)

12 (39)

1.06 (0.43-2.60)

   Staff attitude

24 (30)

8 (26)

0.81 (0.25-2.61)

   Traditione,h

7 (9)

9 (29)

4.01 (0.80-20.15)

  1. NB: *prompting may have been used; ** multiple answers possible; ªSignificant p-value (p ≤ 0.05); b One participant was removed from analysis as she did not report where she delivered; c Adjusted for age, education, period of arrival, age at marriage, RHG exposure; d Adjusted OR excludes education; e Adjusted OR excludes period of arrival; f Adjusted OR excludes age at marriage; g Adjusted OR excludes age; h Adjusted OR excludes RHG exposure.