Factors associated with health care provider knowledge on abortion care in Ethiopia, a further analysis on emergency obstetric and newborn care assessment 2016 data

Table 3 Factors associated with health care providers’ knowledge on abortion care

Variables	Unadjusted		Adjusted
Variables	Odds ratio	P-value	Odds ratio	P-value
Provider level variables
Provider qualifications
Health Officer	1		1
Midwife	1.84	< 0.00011	1.96	< 0.0001
Nurse	3.17	< 0.0001	2.99	< 0.0001
N. of facilities posted previously in the last 3 years	1.00	0.399
Experience in current facility (number of years)	0.99	0.354
Provider’s age	0.99	0.354
Provider’s sex
Female	1		1
Male	0.78	< 0.0001	0.77	0.001
Performed manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) in the last 3 months
No	1		1
Yes	0.50	< 0.0001	0.67	< 0.0001
Trained to perform MVA
No	1		1
Yes	0.65	< 0.0001	0.74	< 0.0001
Facility level variables
Region
Tigray	1		1
Afar	1.12	0.669	1.02	0.947
Amhara	0.89	0.425	0.79	0.129
Oromia	1.28	0.074	1.05	0.739
Somali	0.83	0.344	0.58	0.013
Benishangul Gumuz	0.52	0.052	0.47	0.029
SNNP	1.13	0.414	0.83	0.239
Gambella	6.37	0.003	7.95	0.006
Harari	1.19	0.744	1.34	0.597
Addis Ababa	0.59	0.01	0.58	0.018
Dire Dawa	0.88	0.77	0.79	0.613
Managing authority
Public	1		1
Private for profit	0.76	0.215	1.35	0.257
Private for non-profit	0.82	0.452	0.90	0.705
Types of facility
Hospital/MCH specialty centre	1		1
Health centre/clinics	1.89	< 0.0001	1.26	0.13
Facility location
Urban	1		1
Rural	1.47	< 0.0001	1.15	0.084
Availability of computer
No	1		1
Yes	0.74	< 0.0001	0.90	0.221
Availability of internet
No	1		1
Yes	0.44	< 0.0001	0.69	0.023
Availability of safe abortion care guideline
No	1		1
Yes	0.66	< 0.0001	0.88	0.133
Availability family planning guideline
No	1		1
Yes	0.82	0.012	0.94	0.507

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