Determinants of Second Child Birth Interval Among Women of Lusaka Province: A Cox Regression Model (original) (raw)

BackgroundChild birth intervalis the length of time between two successful live births.Shorter child birth interval among women of reproductive age is a serious global public health challenge. It is associated with low birth weight, child malnutrition, and child mortality.There is a general dearth of literature on this subject in Zambia. Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish the determinants of second child birth interval among women.MethodsA cross-sectional study involving 100 women of reproductiveage group in Lusaka province. The participants were purposively and convenientlyselected. A pre tested structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The key variables in the data were age, marital status, educational level, tribe, income. The data from the questionnaires were summarized into a Microsoft excel sheet, and cleaned for errors and duplications.Thereafter the excel sheet was exported to Stata version 14.2 for analysis.Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression analysi...

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