Table 1.
Univariate analysis of amputation stump wound infection by population characteristics
| Characteristic | Wound infection | Total (%) |  |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (%) | No (%) | ||||
| Age | |||||
| 0–17 | 6 (60.0) | 4 (40.0) | 10 (15.9) | 4.234 | 0.237 |
| 18–39 | 20 (52.6) | 18 (47.4) | 38 (60.3) | ||
| 40–65 | 11 (84.6) | 2 (15.4) | 13 (20.6) | ||
| >65 | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | 2 (03.2) | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 29 (58.0) | 21 (42.0) | 50 (79.4) | 0.544 | 0.461 |
| Female | 9 (69.2) | 4 (30.8) | 13 (20.6) | ||
| Season | |||||
| Dry | 14 (51.9) | 13 (48.0) | 27 (42.9) | 1.415 | 0.234 |
| Wet | 24 (66.7) | 12 (33.3) | 36 (57.1) | ||
| Haematocrit | |||||
| <30 % | 27 (77.1) | 8 (22.9) | 35 (55.6) | 9.314 | 0.002 |
| ≥30 % | 11 (39.3) | 17 (60.7) | 28 (44.4) | ||
| Smoking | |||||
| Yes | 3 (100) | 0 (00.0) | 3 (04.8) | 2.072 | 0.150 |
| No | 35 (58.3) | 25 (41.7) | 60 (95.2) | ||
| HIV infection | |||||
| Negative | 37 (59.7) | 25 (40.3) | 62 (98.4) | 0.699 | 0.603 |
| Positive | 1 (100) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (01.6) | ||