Table 3.
Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection stratified by sociodemographic characteristics among schoolchildren in two primary school children in Rama town, Northern Ethiopia, June 2017.
| Sociodemographic characteristics | Intestinal parasites | p value | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | |
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| Negative (%) | Positive (%) | ||||
| Age group (years) | |||||
| ≤9 | 70 (78.7) | 19 (21.3) | 0.690 | 1.250 (0.42, 3.72) | |
| 10–14 | 143 (73.3) | 52 (26.7) | 0.322 | 1.670 (0.60, 4.63) | |
| 15+ | 23 (82.1) | 5 (17.9) | 1 | ||
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| Sex | |||||
| Male | 129 (74.8) | 37 (22.3) | 1 | ||
| Female | 107 (73.3) | 39 (26.7) | 0.364 | 0.79 (0.47, 1.32) | |
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| Religion | |||||
| Christian | 208 (74.8) | 70 (25.2) | 0.471 | 1.57 (0.62, 3.95) | |
| Muslim | 28 (82.4) | 6 (17.6) | 1 | ||
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| Grade | |||||
| 1–3 | 83 (71.6) | 33 (28.4) | 0.363 | 1.33 (0.72, 2.47) | |
| 4–6 | 76 (79.2) | 20 (20.8) | 0.714 | 0.88 (0.45, 1.74) | |
| 7–8 | 77 (77.0) | 23 (23.0) | 1 | ||
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| Family size | |||||
| ≤5 | 167 (78.4) | 46 (21.6) | 1 | 1 | |
| 6+ | 69 (69.2) | 30 (30.8) | 0.097 | 1.57 (0.92, 2.70) | 1.37 (0.75, 2.50) |
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| Residence | |||||
| Urban | 228 (76.2) | 70 (23.5) | 1 | 1 | |
| Rural | 8 (57.1) | 6 (42.9) | 0.109 | 2.44 (0.82, 7.28) | 1.16 (0.22, 5.97) |
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| Mother's educational status | |||||
| Unable to read and write | 62 (69.7) | 27 (30.3) | 0.409 | 1.96 (0.39, 9.68) | |
| Primary school | 123 (76.9) | 39 (24.1) | 0.658 | 1.43 (0.29, 6.88) | |
| Secondary school | 42 (84) | 8 (16.0) | 0.860 | 0.86 (0.15, 4.73) | |
| College ad above | 9 (81.8) | 2 (18.2) | 1 | ||
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| Father's educational status | |||||
| Unable to read and write | 33 (63.5) | 19 (36.5) | 0.105 | 2.73 (0.81, 9.24) | 2.66 (0.73.84) |
| Primary school | 11 (217.2) | 33 (22.8) | 0.565 | 1.40 (0.44, 4.40) | 1.75 (0.51, 6.02) |
| Secondary school | 72 (78.3) | 20 (21.7) | 0.647 | 1.32 (0.40, 4.32) | 1.85 (0.51, 6.75) |
| College and above | 19 (82.6) | 4 (17.4) | 1 | 1 | |