Table 2.
Distribution of malaria in the study population stratified according to age, gender and study site
| Study site | Gender | Age category (months) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | χ2 | P-value | <60 | 60–119 | 120+ | χ2 | p-value | ||||||
| n | Pos (%) | n | Pos (%) | n | Pos (%) | n | Pos (%) | n | Pos (%) | |||||
| Bamenda | 173 | 28 (16.2) | 145 | 18 (12.4) | 0.907 | 0.341 | 128 | 12 (9.3) | 67 | 15 (22.4) | 123 | 19 (15.5) | 6.175 | 0.045 |
| Limbe | 149 | 42 (28.2) | 169 | 45 (26.6) | 0.097 | 0.755 | 178 | 40 (22.5) | 78 | 33 (42.3) | 62 | 14 (22.6) | 11.622 | 0.003 |
| Yaounde | 150 | 24 (16.0) | 191 | 38 (19.9) | 0.857 | 0.355 | 161 | 20 (12.4) | 78 | 22 (28.2) | 102 | 20 (19.6) | 8.997 | 0.011 |
| Maroua | 164 | 11 (6.7) | 151 | 8 (5.3) | 0.275 | 0.600 | 232 | 14 (6.0) | 54 | 3 (5.6) | 28 | 2 (7.1) | 0.083 | 0.959 |
| Ngaoundere | 143 | 13 (9.1) | 174 | 15 (8.6) | 0.022 | 0.833 | 210 | 17 (8.1) | 66 | 7 (10.6) | 41 | 4 (9.8) | 0.644 | 0.725 |
| Total | 779 | 118 (15.2) | 830 | 124 (14.9) | 0.014 | 0.481 | 910 | 103 (11.3) | 343 | 80 (23.3) | 356 | 59 (16.6) | 28.936 | <0.001 |