Table 2.

Logistic regression predicting the use of deworming medication in Benin.

	Unadjusted			Adjusted
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Age of respondents
15–24	1.00			1.00
25–34	1.02	0.90	1.15	0.90	0.80	1.03
35–49	0.76 ***	0.66	0.88	0.79 **	0.66	0.93
Marital status
Married	1.00			1.00
Not married	1.11	0.90	1.36	0.95	0.75	1.20
Religion
Christian	1.00			1.00
Muslim	0.31 ***	0.26	0.38	0.70 **	0.57	0.86
Traditionalist	0.61 ***	0.47	0.77	1.06	0.84	1.35
Other	0.63 *	0.41	0.98	0.51 **	0.31	0.83
No religion	0.29 ***	0.22	0.39	0.84	0.66	1.08
Region of residence
Ouémé	1.00			1.00
Alibori	0.06 ***	0.04	0.10	0.16 ***	0.10	0.25
Atacora	0.03 ***	0.02	0.06	0.06 ***	0.03	0.10
Atlantic	0.53 **	0.34	0.81	0.52 **	0.33	0.84
Borgou	0.03 ***	0.02	0.05	0.06 ***	0.04	0.10
Collines	0.12 ***	0.07	0.18	0.15 ***	0.09	0.24
Couffo	0.09 ***	0.06	0.14	0.10 ***	0.06	0.17
Donga	0.12 ***	0.07	0.20	0.22 ***	0.13	0.37
Littoral	0.61	0.32	1.17	0.34 **	0.17	0.68
Mono	0.17 ***	0.10	0.29	0.19 ***	0.11	0.32
Plateau	0.20 ***	0.12	0.34	0.28 ***	0.17	0.47
Zou	0.23 ***	0.14	0.37	0.25 ***	0.15	0.41
Place of residence
Urban	1.00			1.00
Rural	0.55 ***	0.45	0.68	0.89	0.72	1.10
Education
Secondary/higher education	1.00			1.00
Primary education	0.63 ***	0.52	0.77	0.61 ***	0.48	0.77
No education	0.31 ***	0.26	0.36	0.49 ***	0.40	0.59
Household wealth
Richest	1.00			1.00
Richer	0.41 ***	0.32	0.52	0.64 ***	0.49	0.83
Middle	0.25 ***	0.20	0.32	0.52 ***	0.40	0.69
Poorer	0.19 ***	0.15	0.24	0.46 ***	0.35	0.59
Poorest	0.10 ***	0.07	0.13	0.31 ***	0.23	0.41
Employment status
Employed	1.00			1.00
Unemployed	0.51 ***	0.44	0.58	0.53 ***	0.45	0.61
Number of ANC visits
Eight times or more	1.00			1.00
Fewer than eight times	0.26 ***	0.20	0.33	0.65 ***	0.50	0.85

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.