Table 3: Association between exclusive breastfeeding, total duration of breastfeeding, number of children in the family, history of parental sucking and digital sucking (univariate analysis).
Variable | p-value | Odds ratio | 95% CI |
Exclusive BF* | 0.025 | 2.28 | 1.11-4.70 |
Total duration of BF* | 0.252 | 0.96 | 0.89-1.03 |
Index parent sucked | 0.010 | 0.30 | 0.12-0.75 |
Other parent sucked | 0.019 | 0.39 | 0.18-0.86 |
Both parents sucked | 0.036 | 4.63 | 1.11-19.4 |
Number of children | 0.560 | 1.09 | 0.81-1.46 |
*Breastfeeding.