Table 7.
Factors associated with good practices about malaria in the study sites.
| Localities | Kaélé | Tibati | Bertoua | Santchou | |||||||||
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| Variables | N | GP (%) | OR (95% CI) | N | GP (%) | OR (95% CI) | N | GP (%) | OR (95% CI) | N | GP (%) | OR (95% CI) | |
| Gender | Female | 0 | — | — | 39 | 34 | 1 | 66 | 39 | 1 | 103 | 78 | 1 |
| Male | 99 | — | — | 76 | 56 | 0.41 (0.14–1.2) | 196 | 96 | 0.66 (0.38–1.17) | 160 | 98 | 0.5 (0.29–0.88)∗ | |
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| Level of education | Illiterate | 27 | 27 | 1 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 1 | |||
| Primary | 39 | 38 | 0.47 (0.02–11.89) | 69 | 56 | 1.01 (0.29–3.52) | 45 | 24 | 0.61 (0.21–1.83) | 43 | 22 | 1 | |
| Secondary | 32 | 32 | 1.18 (0.02–61.55) | 23 | 16 | 0.54 (0.13–2.19) | 124 | 59 | 0.49 (0.18–1.31) | 180 | 128 | 2.35 (1.19–4.63)∗ | |
| Higher | — | — | — | — | — | — | 58 | 34 | 0.76 (0.26–2.19) | 25 | 16 | 0.16 (0.30–0.85)∗ | |
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| Occupation | Housewives | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 37 | 28 | 4.13 (1.35–12.67)∗ | 52 | 43 | 1 |
| Civil servant | 4 | 4 | 3 (0.04–228.68) | — | — | — | 103 | 45 | 1.30 (0.52–3.24) | 196 | 123 | 0.35 (0.16–1.43)∗∗ | |
| Small business | 83 | 82 | 18.33 (0.51–660.95) | 91 | 68 | 0.15 (0.02–1.23) | 21 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0.02 (0.06–0.05)∗∗∗ | |
N: total; OR: odds ratio; GP: good practices; ∗P ≤ 0.05; ∗∗P ≤ 0.001; ∗∗∗P ≤ 0.0001.