Table 2.
Factors associated with thinness among children attending primary schools in pastoral communities, Mieso-Mulu district, Sitti Zone, Somali Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia, 2019.
| Variables | Thinness | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | ||
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| Yes (%) | No (%) | ||||
| Age in years | 6–9 | 19 (8.8%) | 197 (91.2%) | 1 | 1 |
| 10–13 | 53 (16.5%) | 269 (83.5%) | 2.04 (1.17,3.56)∗ | 1.82 (0.99,3.31) | |
| 14–17 | 16 (12%) | 117 (88%) | 1.42 (0.70, 2.87) | 1.15 (0.53, 2.48) | |
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| Sex | Male | 57 (16.5%) | 288 (83.5%) | 1.88 (1.18, 3.00)∗ | 1.86 (1.12, 3.09)∗ |
| Female | 31 (13.1%) | 295 (86.9%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Mothers' education | Illiterate | 77 (14%) | 474 (86%) | 1.61 (0.83, 3.13) | 1.58 (0.68, 3.68) |
| Literate | 11 (9.2%) | 109 (90.8%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Mothers' occupation | Housewife | 68 (14.4%) | 404 (85.6%) | 1.51 (0.89, 2.56) | 1.10 (0.56, 2.17) |
| Working mothers^ | 20 (10.1%) | 179 (89.9%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Fathers' occupation | Pastoral | 33 (12.4%) | 234 (87.6%) | 0.82 (0.43, 1.60) | 0.65 (0.31, 1.35) |
| Merchant | 23 (11.7%) | 173 (88.3%) | 0.77 (0.39, 1.52) | 0.70 (0.32, 1.56) | |
| Employer | 16 (16.2%) | 83 (83.8%) | 1.12 (0.53, 2.38) | 1.56 (0.62, 3.94) | |
| Others^^ | 16 (16.7%) | 93 (83.3%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Family size | ≤5 | 27 (11.4%) | 209 (88.6%) | 0.92 (0.46, 1.84) | 1.42 (0.65, 3.06) |
| 6–8 | 47 (14.6%) | 274 (85.4%) | 1.23 (0.65, 2.32) | 1.56 (0.79, 3.22) | |
| >8 | 14 (12.3%) | 100 (87.7%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Daily meal frequency | ≤3 | 68 (12.4%) | 480 (86.6%) | 0.73 (0.42, 1.26) | 0.64 (0.34, 1.19) |
| >3 | 20 (16.3%) | 103 (83.7%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Water treatment | No | 36 (12.9%) | 243 (87.1%) | 0.97 (0.61, 1.53) | |
| Yes | 52 (13.3%) | 340 (86.7%) | 1 | ||
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| Latrine availability | No | 28 (13.3%) | 182 (86.7%) | 1.03 (0.64, 1.66) | 0.74 (0.42, 1.30) |
| Yes | 60 (13%) | 401 (87%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Waste disposal site | Open field | 63 (17.8%) | 291 (82.2%) | 1 | 1 |
| Pit | 15 (9.1%) | 149 (90.9%) | 0.47 (0.26, 0.85)∗ | 0.50 (0.26, 0.96)∗ | |
| Burning | 10 (6.5%) | 143 (93.5%) | 0.32 (0.16, 0.65)∗ | 0.37 (0.17, 0.91)∗ | |
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| Bed net utilization | No | 56 (23.7%) | 180 (76.3%) | 3.92 (2.45, 6.26)∗∗ | 4.22 (2.52, 7.03)∗∗ |
| Yes | 32 (7.3%) | 403 (92.6%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| HFIAS | Insecure | 52 (13.9%) | 323 (86.1%) | 1.16 (0.74, 1.83) | 1.07 (0.63, 1.84) |
| Secure | 36 (12.2%) | 260 (87.8%) | 1 | 1 | |
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| Intestinal parasitic infection | Yes | 38 (21.1%) | 142 (78.9%) | 2.36 (1.49, 3.75)∗∗ | 2.25 (1.36, 3.73)∗∗ |
| No | 50 (10.2%) | 441 (89.8%) | 1 | 1 | |
∗, P value < 0.05; ∗∗, P value < 0.01; ^merchant, pastoral, and employer; ^^daily laborer, no work; COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.