. 2021 Apr 8;2021:5712309. doi: 10.1155/2021/5712309

Table 5.

Multinomial regression analysis examining sociodemographic, clinical, hygiene, and dietary factors associated with anaemia, microcytic anaemia, and malarial anaemia.

Parameter	Category	Anaemia		Microcytic anaemia		Malarial anaemia
Parameter	Category	AOR (95% CI)	P value	AOR (95% CI)	P value	AOR (95% CI)	P value
Sociodemographic factors
Gender	Male	1.0 (0.6-1.6)	0.904	1.2 (0.7–2.0)	0.417	0.7 (0.4–1.4)	0.355
Gender	Female	Reference		Reference		Reference
Age	1–5	0.9(0.5–1.6)	0.685	2.4 (1.3–4.6)	0.007	1.9 (0.8–4.5	0.163
	6–10	1.1 (0.5–2.1)	0.852	2.0 (1.0–3.9)	0.060	3.3 (1.4–8.1)	0.008
	11–15	Reference		Reference		Ref
Altitude	Lowland	4.0 (1.3–12.4)	0.017	1.7 (0.5–6.1)	0.401	3.3 (0.8–13.6)	0.096
Altitude	Highland	Reference		Reference	—	Reference	—
Presentation	Hospital	1.5 (0.5–4.4)	0.515	0.4 (0.1–1.4)	0.133	2.8 (0.7–11.5)	0.147
Presentation	Community	Reference	—	Reference	—	Reference	—
Family size	>10	0.2 (0.1–0.7)	0.017	1.2 (0.4–4.7)	0.748	1.0 (0.3–4.1)	0.979
	6–10	1.1 (0.6–1.8)	0.828	1.1(0.6–1.8)	0.833	0.8 (0.4–1.5)	0.446
	1–5	Reference		Reference	—	Reference	—
Parents' age	≤25	1.0 (0.3–3.7)	0.991	0.5 (0.1–2.4)	0.349	0.8 (0.1–7.1)	0.826
	26–35	1.8 (0.9–4.0)	0.117	1.7 (0.8–3.7)	0.163	2.6 (1.0–6.6)	0.049
	36–50	1.2 (0.6–2.2)	0.645	1.8 (0.9–3.8)	0.105	1.4 (0.6–3.4)	0.481
	>50	Reference	—	Reference	—	Reference	—
Education level	No formal	1.9 (0.6–5.7)	0.261	0.6 (0.2–1.8)	0.388	0.2 (0.1–0.6)	0.005
	Primary	1.5 (0.5–4.4)	0.506	0.5 (0.2–1.5)	0.215	0.2 (0.1–0.6)	0.003
	Secondary	1.1 (0.3–3.4)	0.902	0.5 (0.2–1.8)	0.303	0.3 (0.1–0.9)	0.030
	Tertiary	Reference	—	Reference	—	Reference	—
Ethnicity	Coastal	1.4 (0.4–5.5)	0.645	1.4 (0.4–4.3)	0.599	0.6 (0.3–1.3)	0.194
	Grassland	2.2 (0.6–8.5)	0.265	0.8 (0.3–2.5)	0.701	0.8 (0.3–1.7)	0.493
	Forest	—	—	15.7 (1.6–155.4)	0.019	1.1 (0.1–10.3)	0.961
	Sahel	4.3 (0.4–41.7)	0.210	0.1 (0.0–1.5)	0.098		—
	Others	Reference	—	Reference		Reference	—
Occupation	Farming	2.2 (1.0–4.5)	0.042	2.5 (1.1–5.9)	0.038	2.0 (0.7—6.2)	0.225
	Civil servant	1.1 (0.5–2.5)	0.735	0.9 (0.3–2.3)	0.762	1.5 (0.4–4.9)	0.543
	Petty trading	0.9 (0.4–2.1)	0.885	1.3 (0.5–3.5)	0.573	2.1 (0.6–56.9)	0.242
	Private worker	2.7 (1.2–6.0)	0.013	2.2 (0.9–5.3)	0.087	1.7 (0.5–5.5)	0.373
	Fishing	5.5 (2.3–12.7)	<0.001	0.3 (0.0–1.5)	<0.001	2.8 (0.9—8.7)	0.073
	Jobless	1.5 (0.7–3.4)	0.313	3.4 (1.4–8.3)	0.009	3.8 (1.2–12.1)	0.023
	Retired	Reference	—	Reference		Reference	—

Clinical factors
Malnutrition	Yes	1.2 (0.1–31.4)	0.903	0.2 (0.0–2.3)	0.196	1.2 (0.0–31.4)	0.903
	No	Reference		Reference		Reference
Stunting	Yes	0.4 (0.0–12.5)	0.621	7.9 (0.7–84.2)	0.088	0.4 (0.0–12.5)	0.621
	No	Reference		Reference		Reference	—
Underweight	Yes	0.7 (0.0–12.2)	0.831	2.3(0.6–9.5)	0.245	0.7 (0.0–12.2)	0.831
Underweight	No	Reference		Reference	—	Reference	—
Wasting	Yes	—	—	1.4 (0.1–12.2)	0.912	—	—
Wasting	No	Reference		Reference	—	Reference	—
Parasitaemia	High	0.3 (0.1–1.8)	0.183	0.1 (0.0–1.2)	0.071	0.1 (0.0–1.9)	0.129
	Moderate	0.2 (0.0–1.3)	0.086	2.6 (1.0–6.6)	0.048	0.9 (0.2–3.9)	0.932
	Low	Ref		Reference		Ref
Inflammation	Yes	1.1 (0.3–4.3)	0.937	2.0(0.9–4.4)	0.084	1.1 (0.3–4.3)	0.937
Inflammation	No	Ref		Ref		Ref

Dietary factors
Weekly fruit consumption	1-2	1.4 (0.8–2.4)	0.240	1.0 (0.6–1.7)	0.995	0.9 (0.5–1.9)	0.861
	3-4	0.4 (0.2–0.8)	0.015	1.1 (0.6–2.2)	0.783	0.7 (0.3–1.8)	0.471
	>4	Reference		Reference	—	Reference	—
Weakly meat consumption	1-2	1.2 (0.7–2.1)	0.430	1.1 (0.7–1.9)	0.661	1.3 (0.7–2.6)	0.436
	3-4	2.5 (1.1–5.6)	0.026	1.8 (0.9–3.6)	0.077	1.6 (0.7–3.8)	0.346
	>4	Reference		Reference	—	Reference	—
Weekly Plantain consumption	1-2	0.7 (0.4–1.2)	0.174	0.7 (0.2–1.2)	0.158	2.2 (1.0–4.8)	0.052
	3-4	2.5 (1.1–5.6)	0.034	0.5 (0.2–1.0)	0.057	2.9 (1.2–7.3)	0.024
	>4	Reference	—	Reference	—	Reference

P values in bold are statistically significant.