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Table 3.

Factors contributing to malaria treatment-seeking from public sector healthcare services by migrant workers in malaria endemic regions of Myanmar (2013–2015)

Characteristics	Sought treatment from public sector				Crude OR (95% CI)	P value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	P value
	No (n = 7997)		Yes (n = 1606)
	No.	%	No.	%
General characteristics
Region
Other regions^a	5035	84.8	901	15.2	1.0		1.0
Bago Region	2962	80.8	705	19.2	1.3 (1.2–1.5)	< 0.001	1.2 (1.1–1.4)	< 0.001
Category of work site
Category 3^a	5350	85.0	946	15.0	1.0		1.0
Category 2	2226	81.9	491	18.1	1.8 (1.5–2.2)	< 0.001	1.4 (1.2–1.6)	< 0.001
Category 1	421	71.4	169	28.6	2.3 (1.9–2.7)	< 0.001	2.3 (1.9–2.9)	< 0.001
Education level
Illiterate, read, write^a	2014	84.4	371	15.6	1.0		1.0
Primary and middle	5203	83.3	1041	16.7	1.4 (1.1–1.6)		1.0 (0.9–1.2)	1.00
High school and above	780	80.1	194	19.9	1.2 (1.1–1.5)	0.01	1.1 (0.9–1.3)	1.00
Migration patterns
Seasonal migration
No^a	5004	82.2	1084	17.8	1.0		1.0
Yes	2993	85.1	522	14.9	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	0.00	1.1 (0.9–1.3)	0.08
Duration of stay (year)
< 1^a	4053	92.0	354	8.0	1.0		1.0
≥ 1	3944	75.9	1252	24.1	3.6 (3.2–4.1)	0.00	3.5 (3.1–4.0)	< 0.001
Awareness of malaria
Received any form of IEC on malaria
No^a	5689	85.9	935	14.1	1.0		1.0
Yes	2308	77.5	671	22.5	1.8 (1.6–2.0)	< 0.001	1.2 (1.0–1.3)	0.02
Health staff visited for malaria related reasons
No^a	3617	86.1	583	13.9	1.0		1.0
Yes	4380	81.1	1023	18.9	1.5 (1.3–1.6)	< 0.001	1.0 (0.9–1.2)	0.65
Malaria symptoms known
No^a	5741	84.5	1053	15.5	1.0		1.0
Yes	2256	80.3	553	19.7	1.3 (1.2–1.5)	< 0.001	1.7 (1.4–2.2)	< 0.001
Aware of diagnosis of malaria
No^a	2392	87.5	341	12.5	1.0		1.0
Yes	5605	81.6	1265	18.4	1.6 (1.4–1.8)	< 0.001	1.4 (1.2–1.7)	< 0.001

95% CI 95% confidence interval, OR odds ratio

^aReference category