Table 5.
Associations between patient characteristics and infection with any parasite from a study of intestinal parasites in children aged in urban poor, Nairobi, 2010-2011
|
Patient characteristics |
Any parasite (%) |
|
Crude |
Adjusted |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI | p-value | AOR | 95% CI | p-value | |||
| Total |
541/2112(25.6) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
| Gender |
|
|||||||
| Male (ref) |
298/1116(26.7) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
| Female |
243/996(24.4) |
0.89 |
0.73,1.08 |
0.226 |
|
0.86 |
070,1.06 |
0.169 |
| Age group1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 0 to 12 months (ref) |
141/758(18.6) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
1.0 |
- |
- |
| 13 to 24 months |
147/528(27.8) |
1.69 |
1.29,2.20 |
0.001* |
|
1.72 |
1.30,2.29 |
<0.001* |
| 25 to 36 months |
122/408(29.9) |
1.87 |
1.41,2.47 |
<0.001* |
|
2.01 |
1.46,2.76 |
<0.001* |
| 37 to 48 months |
84/241(34.9) |
2.34 |
1.70,3.23 |
<0.001* |
|
2.53 |
1.77,3.64 |
<0.001* |
| 49 to 60 months |
45/148(30.4) |
1.91 |
1.29,2.84 |
0.001* |
|
1.85 |
1.20,2.85 |
0.005* |
| HIV status2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Negative (ref) |
398/1598(24.9) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
1.0 |
- |
- |
| Positive |
111/302(36.8) |
1.75 |
1.35,2.27 |
<0.001* |
|
2.04 |
1.55,2.67 |
<0.001* |
| Patient type |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Outpatients (ref) |
432/1577(27.4) |
1.0 |
|
|
|
1.0 |
|
|
| Inpatients |
109/535(20.4) |
0.68 |
0.53,0.86 |
0.001* |
|
0.78 |
0.59,1.03 |
0.084 |
| Seasonality Dry Season (ref) Wet season 0 |
|
|
- |
- |
|
|
|
|
| 1.0 1.19 | - - 0.97, 1.46 | - - 0.087 | 1.0 1.35 | - 1.09,1.68 | - 0.007* | |||
KEY: *significant, missing values 1 = 29; 2 = 212.