Table 1. Log rank (Mantel-Cox) test of equality of survival distribution for socio-demographic characteristics, type of SAM and co-morbidity at admission in severely malnourished children admitted to public hospitals in Aksum, 2019.
| Variable | Category | Percentage of outcome category | Median Survival (days) | 95% CI | Log-rank test | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured % | Dead % | Defaulted % | Transferred % | Referred % | Total % | LL | UL | Chi-square | P-value | |||
| Sex | Male | 31.4 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 12.2 | 3.2 | 53.9 | 15 | 13.7 | 16.3 | 2.87 | 0.090 |
| Female | 24.6 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 9.9 | 2.8 | 46.1 | 16 | 14.6 | 17.4 | |||
| Age (in months) | 0–5 | 7.3 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 10.8 | 20 | 16.4 | 23.6 | 8.74 | 0.033 |
| 6–11 | 10.1 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 5.5 | 1.6 | 19.9 | 14 | 13.2 | 14.8 | |||
| 12–35 | 29.8 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 12.9 | 3.0 | 54.6 | 15 | 13.7 | 16.3 | |||
| 36–59 | 8.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 14.7 | 15 | 13.1 | 16.9 | |||
| Name of institution | AkUCSH | 23.2 | 2.3 | 4.6 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 40.1 | 16 | 14.1 | 17.9 | 7.34 | 0.007 |
| St. Mary hospital | 32.8 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 16.1 | 2.1 | 59.9 | 15 | 13.9 | 16.1 | |||
| Type of SAM | Marasmus | 35.5 | 3.5 | 6.9 | 14.9 | 4.1 | 64.9 | 15 | 13.8 | 16.2 | 0.384 | 0.825 |
| Kwashiorkor | 11.2 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 5.1 | 1.4 | 20.7 | 15 | 13.1 | 16.9 | |||
| Marasmic-kwash | 9.4 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 14.4 | 17 | 13.6 | 20.4 | |||
| Co-morbidity | Present | 38.8 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 8.7 | 5.9 | 64.4 | 17 | 15.8 | 18.2 | 82.82 | <0.001 |
| Absent | 17.2 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 13.5 | 0.2 | 35.6 | 11 | 10.0 | 12.0 | |||
| Total | 56.0 | 6.0 | 9.8 | 22.2 | 6.0 | 100.0 | 15 | 14.1 | 15.9 | |||