Table 4.

Factors associated with caregivers of U5 children receiving a recommended care of testing fever for malaria before using anti-malarial, Igabi LGA, Kaduna Nigeria. (N = 155)

Characteristics	Test blood for malaria parasite before taking anti-malarial drugs			p value
	Yes	No	OR (95% C.I)
Mother’s age < 30 years
No	22 (30.1)	51 (69.9)	0.9 (0.5–1.8)	0.97
Yes	26 (31.7)	56 (68.3)
Type of community
Rural	28 (44.4)	35 (55.6)	2.9 (1.4–5.8)	0.00
Urban	20 (21.7)	72 (78.3)
Mother’s had formal education
No	10 (17.2)	48 (82.8)	0.3 (0.1–0.7)	0.01
Yes	38 (39.2)	59 (60.8)
Religion
Islam	47 (30.9)	105 (69.1)	0.9 (0.1–10)	1.00
Christianity	1 (33.3)	2 (66.7)
Household size < 5
Yes	24 (25.3)	71 (74.7)	0.5 (0.3–1.0)	0.08
No	24 (40.0)	36 (60.0)
Malaria, a major health problem
No	2 (22.2)	7 (77.8)	0.6 (0.1–3.1)	0.83
Yes	46 (31.5)	100 (68.5)
Mothers knows mode of malaria transmission
No	2 (10.0)	18 (90.0)	0.2 (0.1–1.0)	0.06
Yes	46 (34.1)	89 (65.9)
Mothers knows mosquitoes feeding time
No	15 (35.7)	27 (64.3)	1.3 (0.6–2.9)	0.55
Yes	33 (29.2)	80 (70.8)
Mothers knows malaria symptoms
No	11 (31.4)	24 (68.6)	1.0 (0.5–2.3)	1.00
Yes	37 (30.8)	83 (69.2)
Mothers knows how to detect if fever is caused by malaria
No	16 (26.7)	44 (73.3)	0.7 (0.4–1.4)	0.46
Yes	32 (33.7)	63 (66.3)
Mothers knows malaria prevention measures
No	21 (32.3)	44 (67.7)	1.1 (0.6–2.2)	0.89
Yes	27 (30.0)	63 (70.0)
Poor malaria knowledge
Yes	16 (26.7)	44 (73.3)	0.7 (0.4–1.5)	0.46
No	32 (33.7)	63 (66.3)
Total	48 (31.0)	107 (69.0)