Analgesia during Labor and Vaginal Birth among Women with Severe Maternal Morbidity: Secondary Analysis from the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health

Table 3

Sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics of women with SMM according to the performance of analgesia during labor and childbirth.

	With Analgesia	Without Analgesia	Prevalence Ratio (95%CI)
N	601	9,187
Age (years)^1
<20	74 (12.3)	1,085 (11.8)	1
20 – 34	421 (70.0)	6,742 (73.5)	0.92 (0.54 – 1.58)
≥ 35	106 (17.6)	1,343 (14.6)	1.15 (0.43 – 3.02)
Marital Status^2
Single	50 (8.3)	954 (10.6)	0.78 (0.44 – 1.36)
Married	551 (91.7)	8,044 (89.4)	1
Education (years)^3
<5	26 (5.1)	1,902 (22.6)	1
5 – 8	83 (16.1)	2,137 (25.4)	2.77 (1.46 – 5.27)
9 – 11	136 (26.5)	2,007 (23.9)	4.56 (2.58 – 8.04)
≥12	269 (52.3)	2,357 (28.0)	7.60 (4.28 – 13.48)
Previous birth^4
0	343 (57.1)	3840 (41.8)	1
1 – 2	207 (34.4)	3480 (37.9)	0.68 (0.57 – 0.83)
≥ 3	51 (8.5)	1861 (20.3)	0.33 (0.18 – 0.60)
Previous C-section^5
0	549 (91.8)	8,681 (96.5)	1
1	44 (7.4)	296 (3.3)	2.18 (1.41 – 3.35)
≥2	5 (0.8)	23 (0.3)	3.0 (1.49 – 6.03)

Missing: 1 – 17; 2 – 189; 3 – 871; 4 – 6; 5 – 190.