Table 1.
Distribution of childhood morbidity and its associated selected risk factors
| Covariates | Diarrhea recently (N and %) | Fever recently (N and %) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | p-value | No | Yes | p-value | |
| Current age of child | ||||||
| 0–11 months | 1604(86.1) | 260(13.9) | 0.000 | 299 (16.0) | 299 (16.0) | 0.000 |
| 12–23 months | 1449(82.1) | 316 (17.9) | 1421 (80.5) | 344 (19.5) | ||
| 24–59 months | 4672(91.4) | 441 (8.6) | 4499 (88.0) | 614 (12.0) | ||
| Sex of child | ||||||
| Male | 3912 (87.8) | 542 (12.2) | 0.012 | 3806 (85.5) | 648 (14.5) | 0.654 |
| Female | 3813 (88.9) | 475 (11.1) | 3679 (85.8) | 609 (14.2) | ||
| Anemia level | ||||||
| Anemic | 7517 (88.2) | 1003 (11.8) | 0.012 | 7283 (85.5) | 1237 (14.5) | 0.021 |
| Not anemic | 208 (93.7) | 14 (6.3) | 202 (91.0) | 20 (9.0) | ||
| Husband education level | ||||||
| No education | 3995 (89.7) | 457 (10.3) | 0.000 | 3858 (86.7) | 594 (13.3) | 0.000 |
| Primary | 2389 (86.7) | 367 (13.3) | 2298 (83.4) | 458 (16.6) | ||
| Secondary | 776 (86.5) | 121 (13.5) | 763 (85.1) | 134 (14.9) | ||
| Higher | 565 (88.7) | 72 (11.3) | 566 (88.9) | 71 (11.1) | ||
| Currently working | ||||||
| No | 5609 (88.9) | 703 (11.1) | 0.020 | 5453 (86.4) | 859 (13.6) | 0.001 |
| Yes | 2116 (87.1) | 314 (12.9) | 2032 (83.6) | 398 (16.4) | ||
| Marital status | ||||||
| Never in union | 51 (91.1) | 5 (8.9) | 0.696 | 42 (75.0) | 14 (25.0) | 0.002 |
| Married | 7300 (88.4) | 960 (11.6) | 7089 (85.8) | 1171 (14.2) | ||
| Widowed | 94 (90.4) | 10 (9.6) | 95 (91.3) | 9 (8.7) | ||
| Separated | 280 (87.0) | 42 (13.0) | 259 (80.4) | 63 (19.6) | ||
| Breastfeeding status | ||||||
| No | 2589 (89.7) | 298 (10.3) | 0.007 | 2470 (85.6) | 417 (14.4) | 0.015 |
| Yes | 5136 (87.7) | 719(12.3) | 5015 (85.7) | 840 (14.3) | ||