Table 3. Factors associated with underweight school age children in Merawi town, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 396).
| Variables | Weight for age | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Response | Normal | Under weight | COR (95% CL) | AOR (95% CL) | P- value | |
| Sex | Male | 151 | 12 | 0.507 (0.185, 1.385) | ||
| Female | 149 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Diarrhea last year | Yes | 128 | 5 | 1.935 (0.673, 5.565) | ||
| No | 172 | 13 | 1 | |||
| Age of the child | 6–8 | 180 | 4 | 5.250 (1.688, 16.333) | 12.930 (2.350, 71.157) | 0.003 |
| 9–12 | 120 | 14 | 1 | 1 | ||
| No of children | 1–2 | 146 | 10 | 2.737 (0.682, 10.986) | ||
| 3–4 | 138 | 5 | 5.175 (1.129, 23.710) | 8.155 (1.312, 50.677) | 0.024 | |
| 5+ | 16 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Husband education | Educated | 193 | 9 | 1.838 (0.708, 4.772) | ||
| Uneducated | 105 | 9 | 1 | |||
| Grade/ level of education | 1–2 | 153 | 6 | 2.383 (0.841,6.755) | ||
| 3+ | 107 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Type of salt | Iodized | 242 | 17 | 0.245 (0.032,1.882) | ||
| Non iodized | 58 | 1 | 1 | |||
Keys: COR: Crude Odds ratio; AOR: Adjusted Odds Ratio; N: Number