Table 4. Effect of ITN usage on malaria parasitaemia [% (n)] of study participants with different sociodemographic characteristics in the South West Region of Cameroon.
Variable | Semi-urban | Rural | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subclass | ITN use | P value | ITN use | P value | |||||
n | No | Yes | n | No | Yes | ||||
Age groups (years) | < 5 | 127 | 27.1 (13) | 15.2 (12) | 0.102 | 50 | 39.3 (11) | 36.4 (8) | 0.833 |
5–9 | 118 | 39.0 (16) | 33.8 (26) | 0.570 | 45 | 46.2 (12) | 36.8 (7) | 0.532 | |
10–14 | 71 | 43.8 (7) | 20.0 (11) | 0.059 | 28 | 14.3 (2) | 35.7 (5) | 0.192 | |
≥ 15 | 280 | 10.4 (13) | 7.1 (11) | 0.131 | 79 | 11.4 (4) | 6.8 (3) | 0.372 | |
Gender | Male | 262 | 27.4 (26) | 19.2 (32) | 0.124 | 88 | 24.4 (11) | 30.2 (13) | 0.542 |
Female | 334 | 17.0 (23) | 14.1 (28) | 0.459 | 115 | 31.0 (18) | 17.5 (10) | 0.092 | |
Ethnicity | Semi—Bantu | 360 | 18.0 (29) | 13.6 (27) | 0.247 | 177 | 28.2 (24) | 23.9 (22) | 0.512 |
Bantu | 122 | 29.4 (20) | 9.3 (5) | 0.006 | 26 | 27.8 (5) | 12.5 (1) | 0.378 | |
Altitude | Low | 109 | 21.9 (16) | 22.2 (8) | 0.971 | 74 | 19.0 (4) | 20.8 (11) | 0.869 |
Intermediate | 487 | 21.0 (33) | 15.8 (52) | 0.153 | 129 | 30.5 (25) | 25.5 (12) | 0.549 |