Table 6.
Factors associated with good knowledge about malaria in the study sites.
| Localities | Kaélé | Tibati | Bertoua | Santchou | |||||||||
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| Variables | N | GK (%) | OR (95% CI) | N | GK (%) | OR (95% CI) | N | GK (%) | OR (95% CI) | N | GK (%) | OR (95% CI) | |
| Gender | Female | 0 | — | — | 39 | 32 | 1 | 66 | 37 | 1 | 103 | 91 | 1 |
| Male | 99 | — | — | 76 | 51 | 0.45 (0.17–1.15) | 196 | 137 | 1.82 (1.02–3.23)∗ | 160 | 138 | 0.83 (0.39–1.75) | |
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| Level of education | Illiterate | 27 | 25 | 1 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 1 | |||
| Primary | 39 | 37 | 1.48 (0.19–11.21) | 69 | 45 | 0.44 (0.13–1.46) | 45 | 21 | 1.07 (0.37–3.08) | 43 | 37 | 1 | |
| Secondary | 32 | 30 | 1.2 (0.16–9.14) | 23 | 19 | 1.12 (0.24–5.17) | 124 | 81 | 6.91 (3.48–13.81)∗∗∗ | 180 | 158 | 1.16 (0.44–3.07) | |
| Higher | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 58 | 52 | 10.59 (3.12–35.9)∗∗∗ | 25 | 23 | 1.86 (0.35–10.03) | ||
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| Occupation | Housewives | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 37 | 31 | 3.23 (1.24–10.00)∗∗ | 52 | 48 | 1 |
| Civil servant | 4 | 3 | 0.78 (0.02–32.37) | — | — | — | 103 | 63 | 1.35 (0.6–3.05) | 196 | 167 | 0.48 (0.16–1.43) | |
| Small business | 93 | 88 | 5.36 (0.19–147.55) | 91 | 62 | 0.37 (0.10–1.39) | 21 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0.50 (0.05–5.24) | |
N: total; GK: good knowledge; OR: odds ratio; ∗P ≤ 0.05; ∗∗P ≤ 0.001; ∗∗∗P ≤ 0.0001.