Table 2.

Bivariate analysis of factors associated with diarrhea among the study participants in Igembe district hospital, Kenya, 2012

Factors	OR	95% CL	p.v
occupation of the parents of the participants	2.9	(2.71 -16.93)	0.025
child not washing hands before eating	4.01	(3.89 -48.9)	0.015
child not washing hands after visiting toilet	2.8	(2.71 -6.96)	0.011
care taker not washing hands after changing napkin	2.1	(1.84 - 4.98)	0.003
child drunk untreated	1.6	(1.09 - 3.71)	0.077
child not exclusively breast feed	3.4	(1.65 - 27.79)	0.005
child eat mangoes	1.4	(1.01 - 4.33)	0.018
child drunk water from the river	0.89	(0.57 - 0.99)	0.023
child sex	0.6	(0.52 - 0.89)	0.006
child who used toilet regularly	0.2	(0.1 - 0.68)	0.003
child wash hands after eating	0.7	(0.33 - 7.9)	0.004
child with parent with formal education	0.43	(0.15 - 10.51	0.571

No - number,%- percent, CI- confidence interval, OR- odds ratio, - LL- lower limit, UL- upper limit.