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. 2016 Aug 30;2016:1962128. doi: 10.1155/2016/1962128

Table 2.

Predictors of underweight in school age children (n = 2372).

Variable Underweight COR (95% CI) AOR (95% CI) p value
Yes No
Sex 0.79 [0.62–0.92] 0.61 [0.47–0.78] <0.01
 Female 253 899
 Male 331 889

Latrine 0.61 [0.5–0.76] 0.64 [0.48–0.85] <0.01
 Available 403 1402
 Not available 181 386

Age 0.26 [0.2–0.32] 0.21 [0.16–0.28] <0.01
 ≥13 116 878
 <13 468 910

Intestinal parasitic infection 3.34 [2.65–4.22] 2.67 [2–3.55] <0.01
 Yes 471 992
 No 113 796

Family size 19 [14.98–24.11] 23 [17.67–30.02] <0.01
 >4 407 193
 ≤4 177 1595