Table 3.
Bivariable logistic regression on factors associated with childhood diarrheal diseases within under-5 (0–59) children in Ethiopia: finding from EDHS of 2016.
| Variables | Presence occurrence of diarrhea 2 weeks prior to the survey |
Total | COR | CI | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | ||||||
| Child’s age | <6 months | 1189 (91.5%) | 111 (8.5%) | 1300 (100.0%) | 1.190 | (0.959–1.47) | 0.114 |
| 6–11 months | 646 (80.0%) | 161 (20.0%) | 807 (100.0%) | 3.176 | (2.611–3.864) | <0.001* | |
| 12–23 months | 1573 (82.4%) | 336 (17.6%) | 1909 (100.0%) | 2.722 | (2.343–3.163) | <0.001* | |
| 24 and above | 6143 (92.7%) | 482 (7.3%) | 6625 (100.0%) | 1 | |||
| Working status of mother | Not working | 5699 (90.4%) | 608 (9.6%) | 6307 (100.0%) | 0.848 | (0.746–0.963) | 0.011* |
| Working | 3695 (88.8%) | 465 (11.2%) | 4160 (100.0%) | 1 | |||
| Educational status of the mother | No education | 6174 (90.3%) | 664 (9.7%) | 6838 (100.0%) | 0.827 | (0.724–0.945) | 0.005* |
| Primary education and above | 2930 (88.5%) | 381 (11.5%) | 3311 (100.0%) | 1 | |||
| Treatment sought for fever /cough | No | 9218 (91.4%) | 869 (8.6%) | 10087 (100.0%) | 1 | ||
| Yes | 333 (60.1%) | 221 (39.9%) | 554 (100.0%) | 0.142 | (0.118–0.171) | <0.001* | |
| Place of delivery | Home | 6480 (90.6%) | 675 (9.4%) | 7155 (100.0%) | 1 | ||
| Public health facility | 2971 (88.2%) | 399 (11.8%) | 3370 (100.0%) | 1.289 | (1.131–1.470) | <0.001* | |
| Other | 100 (86.2%) | 16 (13.8%) | 116 (100.0%) | 0.115 | (0.901–2.619) | 0.115 | |
| Prenatal care received | No | 5495 (92.7%) | 434 (7.3%) | 5929 (100.0%) | 0.488 | (0.430–0.555) | <0.001* |
| Yes | 4056 (86.1%) | 656 (13.9%) | 4712 (100.0%) | 1 | |||
| Time gap between breast feed and birth | Within first 1 h | 4393 (87.7%) | 618 (12.3%) | 5011 (100.0%) | 1 | ||
| Within first 24 h | 1170 (85.8%) | 193 (14.2%) | 1363 (100.0%) | 1.173 | (1.124–1.822) | 0.073* | |
| After 24 h | 447 (83.2%) | 90 (16.8%) | 537 (100.0%) | 1.431 | (1.124–1.822) | 0.004* | |
| Don’t know/missing/not in universe | 3541 (94.9%) | 189 (5.1%) | 3730 (100.0%) | 0.379 | (0.320–0.449) | <0.001* | |
| Breastfeeding category | Never fed breast milk | 552 (96.0%) | 23 (4.0%) | 575 (100.0%) | 1 | ||
| Still feeding breast milk | 3614 (85.0%) | 638 (15.0%) | 4252 (100.0%) | 4.237 | (2.769–6.484) | 0.001* | |
| Ever fed breast milk, not currently feeding breast milk | 5385 (92.6%) | 429 (7.4%) | 5814 (100.0%) | 1.912 | (1.246–2.935) | 0.003* | |
| Type of resident | Permanent/usual resident | 9439 (89.8%) | 1069 (10.2%) | 10508 (100.0%) | 0.604 | (0.37–0.96) | 0.036* |
| Visitor | 112 (84.2%) | 21 (15.8%) | 133 (100.0%) | 1 | |||
| Number of children in household | ⩽2 | 7704 (89.3%) | 923 (10.7%) | 8627 (100.0%) | 1.325 | (1.115–1.574) | 0.001* |
| ⩾3 | 1847 (91.7%) | 167 (8.3%) | 2014 (100.0%) | 1 | |||
CI: confidence interval; COR: crudes odds ratio.
*
Significant at p < 0.25.