Table 3. Relationship between sociodemographic characteristics of study participants and malaria parasitaemia in the South West Region of Cameroon.
| Variable | Subclass | % (n) | GMPD # | P value | Malaria parasitaemia prevalence | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (n) | Unadjusted P value | OR | 95% CI | Adjusted P value | |||||
| Age groups (years) | < 5 | 22.1 (177) | 1822 | 0.003 | 24.9 (44) | < 0.001 | 3.55 | 2.08–6.05 | < 0.001 |
| 5–9 | 20.4 (163) | 2324 | 37.4 (61) | 5.80 | 3.40–9.90 | < 0.001 | |||
| 10–14 | 12.4 (99) | 2134 | 25.3 (25) | 2.76 | 1.34–5.68 | 0.006 | |||
| ≥ 15 | 44.9 (359) | 740 & | 8.6 (31) | Ref | |||||
| Gender | Male | 43.8 (350) | 2044 | 0.124 | 23.4 (82) | 0.040 | 1.08 | 072–1.61 | 0.718 |
| Female | 56.3 (450) | 1440 | 17.6 (79) | Ref | |||||
| Ethnicity | Semi—Bantu | 67.1 (537) | 1771 | 0.713 | 19.0 (102) | 0.595 | 0.69 | 0.43–1.27 | 0.139 |
| Bantu | 18.5 (148) | 1587 | 20.9 (31) | Ref | |||||
| Locality | Rural | 25.5 (204) | 1961 | 0.431 | 25.5 (52) | 0.027 | 1.63 | 1.07–2.49 | 0.023 |
| Semi—Urban | 74.5 (596) | 1618 | 18.3 (109) | Ref | |||||
| Altitude | Low | 23.0 (184) | 2840 | 0.040 | 21.2 (39) | 0.680 | 0.79 | 0.50–1.22 | 0.285 |
| Intermediate | 77.0 (616) | 1467 | 19.8 (122) | Ref | |||||
OR = Odds Ratio; CI = Confidence Interval; Ref = Reference group; Boldface numbers indicate significant p values; #GMPD = geometric mean parasite per microliter blood, &Significantly lower than the corresponding values for participants < 5 (p = 0.022), 5–9 (p<0.001) and 10–14 (p = 0.014)