Table 3.
Number (%) of children reporting moderate or extreme problems on the EQ-5D questionnaire, stratified by helminth infection and school.
| Dimension | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobility | Self-care | Usual activities | Pain or discomfort | Anxiety or depression | Any dimension | ||||||||
| Parasite | Obs. | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | N (%) | OR (95% CI) |
| A. lumbricoides | |||||||||||||
| Bulangshan | |||||||||||||
| Non-infected | 48 | 11 (23) | 3 (6) | 20 (42) | 39 (81) | 29 (60) | 41 (85) | ||||||
| Infected | 101 | 28 (28) | 1.3 (0.6, 2.9) | 10 (10) | 1.6 (0.4, 6.3) | 53 (52) | 1.5 (0.8, 3.1) | 69 (68) | 0.5 (0.2, 1.1) | 52 (51) | 0.7 (0.3, 1.4) | 90 (89) | 1.4 (0.5, 3.9) |
| Pu'er | |||||||||||||
| Non-infected | 89 | 3 (3) | 3 (4) | 36 (40) | 53 (60) | 59 (66) | 74 (83) | ||||||
| Infected | 9 | 1 (11) | 3.6 (0.3, 38.6) | 0 (0) | n.a. | 3 (33) | 0.74 (0.2, 3.1) | 7 (78) | 2.4 (0.5, 12.1) | 8 (89) | 4.1 (0.5, 34.1) | 9 (100) | n.a. |
| Hookworm | |||||||||||||
| Bulangshan | |||||||||||||
| Non-infected | 36 | 10 (28) | 3 (8) | 20 (56) | 29 (81) | 20 (56) | 32 (89) | ||||||
| Infected | 118 | 29 (26) | 0.9 (0.4, 2.1) | 10 (9) | 1.0 (0.3, 4.1) | 53 (47) | 0.7 (0.3, 1.5) | 79 (70) | 0.6 (0.2, 1.4) | 61 (54) | 0.9 (0.4, 2.0) | 99 (87) | 0.9 (0.3, 2.9) |
| Pu'er | |||||||||||||
| Non-infected | 67 | 3 (4) | 2 (3) | 20 (30) | 37 (55) | 43 (64) | 55 (82) | ||||||
| Infected | 31 | 1 (3) | 0.7 (0.1, 7.1) | 1 (3) | 1.1 (0.1, 12.4) | 19 (61) | 3.7 (1.5, 9.1)a | 23 (74) | 2.3 (0.9, 6.0) | 24 (77) | 1.9 (0.7, 5.1) | 28 (90) | 2.0 (0.5, 7.8) |
| T. trichiura | |||||||||||||
| Bulangshan | |||||||||||||
| Non-infected | 46 | 10 (22) | 4 (9) | 24 (52) | 35 (76) | 31 (67) | 41 (89) | ||||||
| Infected | 108 | 29 (26) | 1.4 (0.6, 3.2) | 9 (9) | 1.0 (0.3, 3.4) | 49 (47) | 0.8 (0.4, 1.7) | 73 (71) | 0.8 (0.3, 1.7) | 50 (49) | 0.5 (0.2, 0.9)a | 90 (87) | 0.8 (0.3, 2.5) |
| Pu'er | |||||||||||||
| Non-infected | 83 | 4 (5) | 2 (2) | 31 (37) | 49 (59) | 55 (66) | 68 (82) | ||||||
| Infected | 15 | 0 (0) | n.a. | 1 (7) | 2.9 (0.2, 34.1) | 8 (53) | 1.9 (0.6, 5.8) | 11 (73) | 1.9 (0.6, 6.5) | 12 (80) | 2.0 (0.5, 7.8) | 15 (100) | n.a |
Odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) are presented. a Significant at P < 0.05 (χ2 test), n.a., not applicable