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

Table 7 Logistic Regression in group who had not experienced intimate partner violence: odds ratio and 95% confidence interval for possible correlates of Major Depressive Episode

	Odds Ratio	[95% Confidence interval]	P value
MSPSS significant other subscale score	0.85	0.59 - 1.20	0.349
MSPSS family subscale score	0.83	0.64 - 1.06	0.129
MSPSS friends subscale score	0.99	0.80 - 1.22	0.929
Age	1.01	0.85 - 1.20	0.937
Mid-upper arm circumference	1.44	0.96 - 2.14	0.077
Not married	3.37	0.24 - 47.45	0.365
Number of years of schooling	1.25	0.98 - 1.59	0.076
Pregnancy unplanned	0.89	0.18 - 4.49	0.889
Experienced complication in previous pregnancy/delivery	0.50	0.05 - 5.38	0.566
Primigravida	0.23	0.03 - 2.06	0.188
Chiyao questionnaire used	0.40	0.05 - 3.06	0.372
Fieldworker 2	1.46	0.29 - 7.44	0.645

(Sample inverse weighted up to total sample recruited on days when SCID done, n = 397, Stata imputation command used to impute values for missing data on the independent variables) Note: business has been excluded from this analysis because there were no SCID cases for business women.

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