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. 2021 Jan 6;21:18. doi: 10.1186/s12879-020-05718-9

Table 3.

Demographic characteristics, frequencies, crude and adjusted odds ratio for undernourished children infected by RVA

Demographic characteristics N = 842 Positive RVA (n = 229) % (Pos) P-value Crude OR (95% CI) P-value Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Age in months < 0.001 < 0.001
 0–11 433 137 31.6 < 0.001 4.12 (2.14–7.94) < 0.001 4.39 (2.08–9.25)
 12–23 300 81 27.0 0.001 3.30 (1.68–6.46) 0.005 2.93 (1.38–6.23)
 24–59 109 11 10.1 Ref Ref
Sex
 Male 473 137 29.0 0.192 1.23 (0.90–1.67) 0.376 1.18 (0.82–1.70)
 Female 369 92 24.9 Ref Ref
Year of admission < 0.001 < 0.001
 2015 415 177 42.7 < 0.001 7.44 (3.77–14.66) < 0.001 16.60 (6.54–42.14)
 2016 317 42 13.2 0.253 1.53 (0.74–3.16) 0.040 2.23 (1.04–4.77)
 2017 110 10 9.1 Ref Ref
Province 0.003 0.115
 Maputo 428 137 32.0 0.010 3.48 (1.34–9.06) 0.019 3.38 (1.22–9.37)
 Nampula 324 80 24.7 0.073 2.43 (0.92–6.38) 0.071 2.65 (0.92–7.63)
 Zambézia 48 7 14.6 0.710 1.26 (0.37–4.33) 0.288 2.10 (0.53–8.27)
 Sofala 42 5 11.9 Ref Ref
Family members in household
  <5 306 62 20.3 Ref Ref
  ≥5 493 160 32.5 < 0.001 1.89 (1.35–2.65) 0.029 1.55 (1.05–2.29)
 Unknown/ missing 43 7
Number of children under five
 < 5 723 194 26.8 Ref
 ≥ 5 77 30 39.0 0.024 1.74 (1.07–2.83)
 Unknown/ missing 42 5
Type of house 0.001 0.497
 Brick 481 161 33.5 1.73 (1.24–2.42) 1.20 (0.71–2.03)
 Mud and Reed 289 65 22.5 Ref Ref
 Unknown/ missing 72 3
Care giver age 0.841
 ≥ 20 139 39 28.1 0.980 0.99 (0.62–1.59)
 21–30 449 118 26.3 0.602 0.91 (0.63–1.30)
 > 30 220 62 28.2 Ref
 Unknown/ missing 34 10
Type of food < 0.001 0.173
 Breast milk 218 76 34.9 Ref Ref
 Breast milk and formula 292 104 35.6 0.860 0.97 (2.27–5.24) 0.411 1.21 (0.77–1.91)
 Formula 41 9 22.0 0.088 0.51 (0.78–3.96) 0.732 0.85 (0.34–2.15)
 Other 275 38 13.8 < 0.001 0.29 (0.19–0.44) 0.042 2.22 (1.03–4.80)
 Unknown/ missing 16 2

Ref Reference category

-: Not applicable

Hosmer and Lemeshow test, p-value = 0.318