Table 2.

Adjusted odds ratios of 138 respondents for variables associated with participation in the MDA

	Non-participants	Partial and full participants	OR crude	p value	OR adj*	p value
n	47 (34%)	91 (66%)
Sex (male)	34 (37%)	58 (63%)	1.488	0.311	2.580	0.082
Ethnicity (S’Tieng)	8 (22%)	29 (78%)	2.280	0.066	4.594	0.016
Village (VN30)	17 (29%)	42 (72%)	1.513	0.262	2.808	0.098
Median age in years (IQR)	34 (28–46)	37 (27–48)	1.007	0.632	1.022	0.252
Occupation (Farmer)	36 (31%)	79 (69%)	1.795	0.235	1.635	0.428
Literacy	18 (24%)	58 (76%)	2.807	0.006	1.400	0.506
Religion (Christian)	42 (34%)	82 (66%)	1.085	0.890	1.497	0.616
Recent immigration	34 (32%)	72 (68%)	1.449	0.372	1.560	0.469
Believes that malaria is the village’s main health problem	26 (31%)	57 (69%)	1.354	0.406	0.739	0.567
Believes fever is a symptom of malaria	6 (21%)	23 (79%)	2.311	0.093	1.691	0.394
Doesn’t know causes of malaria	33 (29%)	83 (72%)	4.402	0.002	1.593	0.481
Doesn’t recall being told about the MDA	22 (21%)	84 (79%)	13.636	<0.001	7.083	0.001
Who explained MDA (DHT)	11 (15%)	63 (85%)	7.364	<0.001	1.401	0.648
Believes everybody should participate in the MDA	8 (18%)	37 (82%)	3.340	0.006	0.965	0.955
Believes the medicine protects against malaria	12 (15%)	69 (85%)	8.886	<0.001	2.364	0.194

Non-participants are defined as not having taking any doses of the antimalarial drug (DHA/piperaquine). Participants have taken at least one or more doses

adj* adjusted for the statistically significant terms in the crude odds ratio [Literacy, Doesn’t know causes of malaria, Doesn’t recall being told about the MDA, Who explained MDA (DHT), Believes everybody should participate in the MDA, Believes the medicine protects against malaria]

OR odds ration, DHT district health team