Table 3.
Prevalence ratio and confidence intervals of factors associated with physical deformity of notified leprosy cases in children under 15 years old in Almenara, Araçuaí, and Diamantina between 1998 and 2010.
| Degree of physical deformity at diagnosis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Yes | No | PR | P value | CI 95% | ||
| n | % | n | % | ||||
| Gender | |||||||
| Female | 6 | 8,3 | 66 | 91,7 | 1 | ||
| Male | 15 | 22,1 | 53 | 77,9 | 2,65 | 0,032 | 1,09–6,45 |
| Operational classification* | |||||||
| Paucibacillary | 2 | 2,4 | 83 | 97,6 | 1 | ||
| Multibacillary | 19 | 34,5 | 36 | 65,5 | 14,68 | <0,001 | 3,54–60,87 |
| Detection mode | |||||||
| Active | 6 | 19,4 | 25 | 80,6 | 1 | ||
| Passive | 15 | 14,2 | 91 | 85,8 | 0,73 | 0,476 | 0,31–1,73 |
PR: prevalence ratio; P value: Poisson regression; CI: confidence intervals.
*World Health Organization classification according to number of skin lesions: paucibacillary (up to 05 lesions) and multibacillary (more than 05 lesions).