Determinants of Menstrual Hygiene Management Practices among Schoolgirls: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Savannah Region of Ghana

Table 3

Determinants of menstrual hygiene management practices among schoolgirls in West Gonja Municipality.

Determinants	Measures	Overall MHM practice		value	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
		Good	Poor
Age	<15 years	111 (81.6%)	25 (18.4%)	0.198	Ref	Ref
	≥15 years	254 (86.4%)	40 (13.6%)		1.4 (0.83-2.47)	1.1 (0.59-2.06)
Ethnicity	Kamara	69 (81.2%)	16 (18.8%)	0.260	Ref
	Gonja	197 (87.6%)	28 (12.4%)		1.6 (0.83-3.20)
	Others	99 (82.5%)	21 (17.5%)		1.1 (0.53-2.24)
Category of school
	Private	20 (55.6%)	16 (44.4%)	≤0.001	Ref	Ref
	Public	345 (87.6%)	49 (12.4%)		5.6 (2.74-11.60)	6.0 (2.64-13.59)
Residence	Rural	171 (79.2%)	45 (20.8%)	0.001	Ref	Ref
	Urban	194 (90.7%)	20 (9.3%)		2.6 (1.45-4.49)	2.8 (1.55-5.18)
Person living with
	Both parents	204 (83.6%)	40(16.4%)	0.227	Ref
	Mother/father only	77 (87.5%)	11 (12.5%)		1.4(0.67-2.81)
	Relatives	77 (86.5%)	12 (13.5%)		1.3(0.63-2.52)
	Boarding	5 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)		1
	Friends	2 (50.0%)	2 (50.0%)		0.2(0.03-1.43)
Mother’s job
	Formal job	21 (77.8%)	6(22.2%)	0.287	Ref
	Informal job	344 (85.4%)	59(14.6%)		1.7(0.65-4.30)
Pocket money
	No	213 (80.4%)	52(19.6%)	0.001	Ref	Ref
	Yes	152 (92.1%)	13(7.9%)		2.9(1.50-5.43)	2.5(1.27-4.86)
Overall knowledge
	Sufficient	231 (84.3%)	43(15.7%)	0.658	Ref
	Insufficient	134 (85.9%)	22(14.1%)		1.1(0.65-1.98)