Table 2.

Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression of factors associated with thinness among adolescent school girls, Adwa town, Northern Ethiopia, 2015.

Characteristics	Thinness		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Yes	No
Age of adolescent
Early	33 (23.2%)	109 (76.8%)	1.98 (1.14, 3.44)	2.15 (1.14, 4.03)∗
Middle	112 (24.7%)	341 (75.3%)	2.15 (1.37, 3.35)	1.96 (1.20, 3.18)∗
Late	29 (13.2%)	190 (86.8%)	1	1
Place of residence
Urban	84 (16.4%)	428 (83.6%)	1
Rural	90 (29.8%)	212 (70.2%)	2.16 (1.54, 3.03)	1.31 (0.59, 2.93)
Type of school
Governmental	167 (22.8%)	565 (77.2%)	3.16 (1.43, 7.00)	2.89 (1.20, 6.91)∗
Private	7 (8.5%)	75 (91.5%)	1	1
Education status of mother
No formal	96 (28.8%)	237 (71.2%)	3.7 (1.99, 6.89)	2.34 (1.14, 4.80)∗
Primary	37 (22.0%)	131 (78.0%)	2.58 (1.31, 5.09)	1.78 (0.86, 3.66)
Secondary	28 (15.5%)	153 (84.5%)	1.67 (0.83, 3.374)	1.29 (0.61, 2.73)
College and above	13 (9.8%)	119 (90.2%)	1	1
Meals per day
<3 meals/day	80 (29.5%)	191 (70.5%)	2.00 (1.42, 2.81)	1.66 (1.12, 2.46)∗
≥3 meals/day	94 (17.3%)	449 (82.7%)	1	1
History of illness
Yes	31 (32.0%)	66 (68.0%)	1.88 (1.18, 3.00)	1.40 (0.83, 2.35)
No	143 (19.9%)	574 (80.1%)	1	1
Home latrine
Yes	111 (16.8%)	550 (83.2%)	1	1
No	63 (41.2%)	90 (58.8%)	3.46 (2.36, 5.07)	1.54 (0.91, 2.59)
Family size
≤5	59 (13.2%)	387 (86.8%)	1	1
>5	115 (31.2%)	253 (68.8%)	2.98 (2.09, 4.23)	2.53 (1.66, 3.86)∗
Source of drinking water
Improved	126 (17.6%)	589 (82.4%)	1	1
Nonimproved	48 (48.5%)	51 (51.5%)	4.4 (2.83, 6.82)	3.27 (1.98, 5.40)∗
Wealth quintile
1 quintile	41 (19.5%)	169 (80.5%)	1.02 (0.63, 1.66)	0.95 (0.54, 1.70)
2 quintile	55 (27.5%)	145 (72.5%)	1.60 (1.01, 2.54)	1.15 (0.66, 1.99)
3 quintile	36 (19.6%)	148 (80.4%)	1.03 (0.62, 1.69)	0.95 (0.54, 1.66)
4 quintile	42 (19.1%)	178 (80.9%)	1	1

∗ = p value < 0.05.