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Table 6 Logistic Regression: odds ratio and 95% confidence interval for possible correlates of Major Depressive Episode

From: Validation of the multi-dimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS) and the relationship between social support, intimate partner violence and antenatal depression in Malawi

 

Odds ratio

[95% Confidence interval]

P value

MSPSS significant other subscale score

0.66

0.47 - 0.94

0.020

MSPSS family subscale score

0.89

0.74 - 1.06

0.193

MSPSS friends subscale score

1.05

0.90 - 1.23

0.526

Age

1.06

0.93 - 1.21

0.377

Mid-upper arm circumference

1.26

0.95 - 1.66

0.107

Not married

6.43

0.97 - 42.5

0.053

Conducts own business

0.14

0.01 - 1.51

0.105

Number of years of schooling

1.21

1.01 - 1.45

0.039

Pregnancy unplanned

1.08

0.37 - 3.20

0.887

Experienced intimate partner violence

18.5

4.98 - 68.6

<0.001

Experienced complication in previous pregnancy/delivery

0.20

0.03 - 1.28

0.088

Primigravida

0.43

0.07 - 2.65

0.364

Chiyao questionnaire used

0.97

0.28 - 3.40

0.962

Fieldworker 2

1.52

0.33 - 6.97

0.592

  1. (Sample inverse weighted up to total sample recruited on days when SCID done, n = 503, Stata imputation command used to impute values for missing data on the independent variables).