Table 2.
Multivariate analysis of risk factors for malaria outbreak Workaye Kebele, Simada District, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016
| Variables | Cases N = 50 (%) |
Controls N = 100 (%) |
COR | 95% CI | AOR | 95% CI | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | ||||||
| Traveling history | |||||||||
| Yes | 13 | 5 | 6.53 | 2.19 | 19.5 |
2.21 1 |
0.84 | 3.86 | 0.12 |
| No | 41 | 103 | 1 | ||||||
| Presence of artificial water holding bodies near to the home | |||||||||
| Yes | 35 | 23 | 10 | 4.4 | 22.7 |
3.32 1 |
1.18 | 9.3 | < 0.001 |
| No | 19 | 85 | 1 | ||||||
| Presence of intermittent rivers with 1 km radius | |||||||||
| Yes | 45 | 36 | 5.41 | 2.11 | 10.00 |
4.72 1 |
1.6 | 13.65 | 0.004 |
| No | 9 | 72 | 1 | ||||||
| Knowledge on transmission, prevention and control of malaria | |||||||||
| Yes | 17 | 81 | 1 |
1 4.36 |
1.64 | 12.23 | 0.005 | ||
| No | 37 | 27 | 5.00 | 2.40 | 10.42 | ||||
| Staying outside the home overnight | |||||||||
| Yes | 24 | 16 | 6.8 | 3.3 | 14 |
3.23 1 |
0.78 | 4.32 | 0.07 |
| No | 30 | 92 | 1 | ||||||
| Utilization of LLINs | |||||||||
| Yes | 27 | 90 | 1 |
1 5.85 |
1.94 | 17.54 | 0.002 | ||
| No | 27 | 18 | 4.61 | 2.16 | 9.78 | ||||
| Environmental control | |||||||||
| Yes | 11 | 58 | 1 |
1 10.01 |
2.94 | 33.33 | < 0.001 | ||
| No | 43 | 50 | 4.54 | 2.11 | 10.00 | ||||