Table 2.

Predictors of malaria morbidity in under five children (unmatched data)

Variable	Year 2012			Year 2014
	AOR	95 % CI	p value	AOR	95 % CI	p value
Child slept under bed net	0.65	0.47–0.89	0.007*	0.77	0.57–1.06	0.109**
Child is male	0.92	0.73–1.15	0.463**	1.15	0.92–1.44	0.215**
Age of the child	1.02	1.01–1.03	<0.001*	1.02	1.02–1.03	<0.001*
Residential area is urban	0.42	0.26–0.67	<0.001*	0.35	0.21–0.59	<0.001*
Cluster altitude (KM)	1.17	0.83–1.66	0.380**	0.54	0.37–0.77	0.001*
Wealth index score	0.87	0.79–0.96	0.004*	0.80	0.73–0.88	<0.001*
Age of the mother	0.98	0.96–1.00	0.017*	0.99	0.97–1.01	0.342**
Mother’s years of education	0.93	0.88–0.99	0.023*	0.97	0.92–1.00	0.240**
Mother can read	1.22	0.83–1.79	0.325**	0.88	0.61–1.28	0.501**
Number of under five children	1.21	1.04–1.42	0.015*	1.25	1.05–1.48	0.011*
Number of bed nets (household)	1.14	0.98–1.33	0.102**	0.93	0.81–1.08	0.367**
Male household head	1.11	0.84–1.46	0.464**	0.96	0.71–1.29	0.768**
Heard malaria messages (<6 months ago)	0.66	0.49–0.87	0.004*	0.79	0.58–1.07	0.126**
Mother knowns mosquito bites cause malaria	0.49	0.32–0.74	0.001*	0.90	0.64–1.25	0.521**
Mother knows fever is the main sign of malaria	1.70	1.08–2.69	0.023*	1.85	1.26–2.71	0.002*
Mother knowns ITN prevents malaria	1.17	0.92–1.48	0.205**	1.00	0.76–1.32	0.999**
Mother knows mosquito repellant prevents malaria	0.58	0.24–1.40	0.227**	0.22	0.04–1.29	0.094**
Mother knowns mosquito coil prevents malaria	1.33	0.56–3.20	0.517**	0.60	0.16–2.20	0.437**
Mother knowns cutting grass around house prevents malaria	0.86	0.58–1.27	0.451**	0.89	0.51–1.56	0.693**
Mothers knowns children are vulnerable to malaria	0.71	0.51–0.99	0.043*	1.32	0.98–1.78	0.071**

CI confidence interval, KM kilometres, ITN insecticide-treated bed net

* Significant (p ≤ 0.05); ** non significant (p > 0.05)