Factors Influencing Receipt of Iron Supplementation by Young Children and their Mothers in Rural India: Local and National Cross-Sectional Studies

Table 4 Factors associated with mother receiving iron supplementation during pregnancy (multiple logistic regression)

Factor	Odds Ratio [95% CI]	P
Postnatal health worker visit	9.57 [2.50, 36.58]	0.001
Wealth quintile ¹
Quintile 1	1.00 (Reference)
Quintile 2	2.28 [0.61, 8.53]	0.223
Quintile 3	2.83 [0.84, 9.50]	0.093
Quintile 4	2.63 [0.71, 9.67]	0.146
Quintile 5	11.20 [1.17, 106.82]	0.036
Religion/Caste
Hindu, Non SC/ST ²	1.00 (Reference)
Scheduled Caste	0.32 [0.11, 0.96]	0.041
Scheduled Tribe	0.63 [0.18, 2.19]	0.468
Muslim	0.11 [0.02, 0.56]	0.008
Number of antenatal health worker visits ³
Quintile 1	1.00 (Reference)
Quintile 2	1.69 [0.51, 5.64]	0.394
Quintile 3	8.66 [0.93, 80.87]	0.058
Quintile 4	1.07 [0.35, 3.29]	0.908
Quintile 5	16.02 [1.83, 140.06]	0.012
Blood test during pregnancy	3.00 [1.19, 7.57]	0.020

¹Wealth index: Quintile 1: 2-8 Quintile 2: 9-12; Quintile 3: 13-18; Quintile 4: 19-26; Quintile 27-62.
²SC = Scheduled Caste, ST = Scheduled Tribe
³Number of antenatal health worker visits: Quintile 1: 1-3; Quintile 2: 4; Quintile 3: 5; Quintile 4: 6-7; Quintile 8-9.

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