Table 3.
Odds ratios of clinical malaria infection among children given their site of residence
| Variables | PYs | Episodes | OR | p-value | 95% CI | |
| All | 758.0 | 597 | ||||
| Explanatory | ||||||
| Site | Goni | 224.4 | 210 | 1 | ||
| Nouna | 219.6 | 165 | 0.70* | 0.023 | 0.52–0.95 | |
| Cissé | 150.9 | 117 | 0.66* | 0.042 | 0.44–0.98 | |
| Kodougou | 163.1 | 134 | 1.49** | 0.009 | 1.10–2.01 | |
| Co-variables | ||||||
| Gender | Male | 367.6 | 280 | 1 | ||
| Female | 390.4 | 317 | 1.01 | 0.889 | 0.86–1.19 | |
| Age in months | > 12 | 14.7 | 10 | 2.28* | 0.015 | 1.18–4.42 |
| 12–23 | 149.3 | 144 | 2.09*** | 0.000 | 1.63–2.67 | |
| 24–35 | 168.4 | 164 | 1.98*** | 0.000 | 1.10–2.02 | |
| 36–47 | 178.7 | 145 | 1.60*** | 0.000 | 1.25–2.04 | |
| 48+ | 246.8 | 134 | 1 | |||
| Ethnicity | Peulh | 151.5 | 123 | 1 | ||
| Mossi | 219.2 | 176 | 0.56** | 0.007 | 0.37–0.85 | |
| Marka | 247.7 | 206 | 0.81 | 0.280 | 0.55–1.19 | |
| Bwaba | 59.6 | 53 | 0.74 | 0.238 | 0.45–1.22 | |
| Samo | 69.3 | 33 | 0.51** | 0.009 | 0.31–0.85 | |
| Others | 10.7 | 6 | 0.80 | 0.611 | 0.33–1.92 | |
| Net use | No | 456.3 | 229 | 1 | ||
| Yes | 301.7 | 368 | 1.14 | 0.186 | 0.94–1.40 | |
| Water point | No | 653.7 | 526 | 1 | ||
| Yes | 104.3 | 71 | 0.91 | 0.574 | 0.65–1.27 | |
| Farm | No | 476.7 | 271 | 1 | ||
| Yes | 281.3 | 326 | 1.46*** | 0.000 | 1.21–1.78 | |
| Animal enclosure | No | 266.9 | 227 | 1 | ||
| Yes | 491.1 | 370 | 0.95 | 0.612 | 0.79–1.15 | |
| Breeding site | No | 697.3 | 548 | 1 | ||
| Yes | 60.7 | 49 | 1.02 | 0.921 | 0.69–1.50 | |
| Season | Dry | 443.5 | 225 | 1 | ||
| Rainy | 314.5 | 372 | 2.19*** | 0.000 | 1.82–2.65 |
* Significant at the 0.05 level, ** Significant at the 0.01 level, *** Significant at the 0.001 level, PYs = Person years, OR = Odds ratio