Table 3.

Factors influencing malaria parasitaemia among the children.

Variable	Number recruited	Malaria parasitaemia		p value
		Frequency	Percentage (%)
Anaemia (haematocrit <30%)
Yes	72	18	25.0	<0.05
No	327	23	7.0
Age (months)
<6	21	1	4.8	>0.05
6–11	56	5	8.9
12–23	101	9	8.4
24–47	143	1	11.9
48–59	72	9	12.25
Sex
Female	185	17	9.2	>0.05
Male	214	24	11.2
SMC intervention
Yes	204	10	4.9	<0.05
No	195	31	15.9

SMC: Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention.