Determinants of safe childbirth and immediate new born care practices of 262 auxiliary midwives (AMWs) enrolled in the study
| Variables | Proportion of AMWs with all six practices of safe and clean childbirth and new born care practices (n/N) |
OR (95% CI) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | p Value |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||
| Villages | ||||
| Hard-to-reach | 10/48 (20.8) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.67 |
| Non-hard-to-reach | 64/214 (29.9) | 1.62 (0.76 to 3.46) | 1.20 (0.51 to 2.82) | |
| Age | ||||
| <35 years | 47/174 (27.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.72 |
| ≥35 years | 27/88 (30.7) | 1.20 (0.68 to 2.10) | 1.16 (0.50 to 2.68) | |
| Education | ||||
| Secondary and below | 38/109 (34.9) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.019 |
| Above secondary | 36/153 (23.5) | 0.57 (0.33 to 0.99) | 0.44 (0.23 to 0.88) | |
| Marital status | ||||
| Single | 39/132 (29.6) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.24 |
| Married | 35/130 (26.9) | 0.88 (0.51 to 1.51) | 0.66 (0.33 to 1.32) | |
| Number of years working as an AMW | ||||
| <10 years | 34/134 (25.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.79 |
| ≥10 years | 40/128 (31.3) | 1.33 (0.78 to 2.30) | 0.88 (0.35 to 2.24) | |
| Any other job apart from AMW work | ||||
| AMW only | 36/148 (24.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.17 |
| Additional job | 38/114 (33.3) | 1.56 (0.90 to 2.68) | 1.53 (0.84 to 2.78) | |
| Training and supervision characteristics | ||||
| Refresher training | ||||
| No or 1 year and more | 33/125 (26.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 |
| Less than 1 year | 41/137 (29.9) | 1.19 (0.69 to 2.05) | 1.25 (0.66 to 2.37) | |
| Adequate supervision | ||||
| Not adequate | 17/124 (13.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.001 |
| Adequate | 57/138 (41.3) | 4.43 (2.32 to 8.45) | 3.18 (1.62 to 6.24) | |
| Knowledge of critical danger signs | ||||
| Consistent high knowledge of critical danger signs | ||||
| No | 33/173 (19.1) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.001 |
| Yes | 41/89 (46.1) | 3.62 (2.01 to 6.52) | 2.81 (1.50 to 5.26) | |