Table 3.

Associations of different characteristics (as continuous variables) with the 6-month incidence of relapse among children discharged as recovered following treatment with the simplified protocol in 10 randomly selected health areas of the Nara district in Mali.

	Unadjusted		Sex and Age Adjusted
	HR [95%CI]	p-Value	HR [95%CI]	p-Value
1. Demographic and admission characteristics to malnutrition treatment
Age (months)	0.94 [0.91; 0.97]	<0.001	0.65 [0.51; 0.84] *	0.001
WHZ	0.89 [0.75; 1.06]	0.203	0.82 [0.69; 0.99]	0.040
WAZ	0.91 [0.75; 1.12]	0.37	0.75 [0.60; 0.93]	0.009
HAZ	1.05 [0.91; 1.20]	0.51	0.94 [0.80; 1.09]	0.39
MUAC (mm)	0.97 [0.94; 1.00]	0.081	0.97 [0.93; 1.00]	0.072
2. Characteristics at discharge recovered from treatment
WHZ	0.71 [0.56; 0.90]	0.005	0.63 [0.49; 0.80]	<0.001
WAZ	0.75 [0.59; 0.94]	0.014	0.52 [0.40; 0.68]	<0.001
HAZ	0.99 [0.85; 1.15]	0.87	0.86 [0.73; 1.02]	0.083
MUAC (mm)	0.75 [0.67; 0.84]	<0.001	0.77 [0.69; 0.86]	<0.001
Length of stay (d)	1.01 [1.01; 1.02]	<0.001	1.01 [1.01; 1.02]	0.001
3. Socio-economic characteristics
Household size	0.99 [0.97; 1.00]	0.14	0.99 [0.97; 1.00]	0.13
Number of children U5 in the household	0.96 [0.90; 1.02]	0.22	0.96 [0.90; 1.02]	0.19
4. Dietary habits collected at first home visit
Number of food groups eaten	0.77 [0.57; 1.05]	0.103	0.84 [0.62; 1.15]	0.28
Frequency of feeding solids or semi-solids	0.81 [0.68; 0.96]	0.013	0.90 [0.75; 1.08]	0.26
5. Morbidity during post-discharge FU
Total number of days sick during FU	0.99 [0.97; 1.01]	0.274	0.98 [0.96; 1.00]	0.09
Total number of days sick per month of FU	1.31 [1.25; 1.36]	<0.001	1.30 [1.24; 1.35]	<0.001

Abbreviations: FU, follow-up; HAZ, height-for-age z-score; HR, hazard ratio; MDD, minimum dietary diversity; MDF, minimum dietary frequency; MUAC, mid-upper arm circumference; U5, under 5 years of age; WAZ, weight-for-age z-score; WHZ, weight-for-height z-score. * only adjusted for sex.