. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 24.

Published in final edited form as: Indian J Child Health (Bhopal). 2015 Nov 6;2(4):152–160.

Table 4.

Point estimates of reported risk factors for diarrhea in children

Risk factor	Point estimate (95% CI)	p value	I² (p)	τ² (SE)
Age of child<24 months (n=5)	1.54 (0.94–2.51)	0.08	95.37 (0.000)	0.28 (0.26)
Malnutrition (n=2)	1.73 (1.53–1.96)	0.000	0.00 (0.44)	0.00 (0.09)
Anemia (n=2)	1.71 (1.29–2.28)	0.000	0.00 (0.38)	0.00 (0.06)
Not breastfed currently (n=2)	0.44 (0.02–10.06)	0.61	98.23 (0.00)	5.01 (7.22)
Mother’s schooling up to/less than 10 years (n=3)	1.18 (0.96–1.44)	0.10	85.22 (0.001)	0.18 (0.21)
Low socioeconomic status (n=5)	7.14 (2.19–23.32)	0.001	98.40 (0.000)	1.73 (1.46)
Unsafe drinking water (n=3)	0.98 (0.57–1.66)	0.41	71.52 (0.03)	0.15 (0.22)

CI: Confidence interval, SE: Standard error