Table 3.
Predictors of Pneumonia, Hospitalization, and Death Among Infants With Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
| Variable | Pneumonia No. (%) |
P Value | Hospitalizations No. (%) |
P Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Influenza vaccine | 26 (33) | .21 | 9 (11) | .25 |
| Meningococcal vaccine | 17 (23) | 4 (5) | ||
| Maternal SES | ||||
| Low SES | 10 (28) | .61 | 3 (8) | .54 |
| Med SES | 24 (31) | 5 (6) | ||
| High SES | 9 (23) | 5 (12) | ||
| Maternal education level | ||||
| No primary | 36 (29) | .89 | 12 (10) | .47 |
| Primary or more | 7 (26) | 1 (4) | ||
| Maternal age ≤24 y | 18 (29) | .84 | 5 (8) | .77 |
| Maternal age >24 y | 18 (26) | 7 (10) | ||
| <3 people/room | 33 (33) | .09 | 10 (9) | .76 |
| ≥3 people/room | 6 (17) | 3 (7) | ||
| Low birth weight (<2500 g) | 3 (38) | .54 | 2 (25) | .14 |
| Birth weight ≥2500 g | 40 (28) | 11 (8) | ||
| Preterm (gestational age ≤37 wk) | 5 (50) | .2 | 1 (10) | .93 |
| Gestational age >37 wk | 38 (30) | 11 (9) | ||
| Male sex | 24 (32) | .37 | 10 (13) | .04 |
| Female sex | 19 (24) | 3 (4) | ||
| Total | 43 | 13 |
P value for association between covariates and risk of outcome using Fisher exact test for 2 × 2 comparisons and χ2 test for association between maternal SES and risk of outcome. Maternal age was missing for 21 infants.
Abbreviation: SES, socioeconomic status.