Table 2.
Association of HAT infection with sociodemographic characteristics
| Socio-demographic characteristic | HAT status | Statistical test (p-value) |
Univariate logistic regression | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative, n (%) | Positive, n (%) | OR | 95% CI | p-value | ||
| Districts | ||||||
| Loukolela | 3350 (99.97) | 1 (0.03) | 0.00011 | 1.0 | – | |
| Mindouli | 1941 (99.2) | 15 (0.8) | 25.9 | 5.2–468 | 0.0016 | |
| Mossaka | 981 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.0 | 0.9885 | ||
| Mpouya | 2259 (99.6) | 9 (0.4) | 13.3 | 2.5–246 | 0.0140 | |
| Age groups (years) | ||||||
| [0–11] | 2890 (99.9) | 2 (0.1) | 0.00122 | 1.0 | – | |
| [12–14] | 1507 (99.9) | 2 (0.1) | 1.9 | 0.2–16.0 | 0.5152 | |
| [≥15] | 4124 (99.5) | 21 (0.5) | 7.4 | 2.2–46.0 | 0.0070 | |
| Gender | ||||||
| male | 4504 (99.8) | 10 (0.2) | 0.19781 | 1.0 | – | |
| female | 4014 (99.6) | 15 (0.4) | 1.7 | 0.8–3.9 | 0.2028 | |
| School level | ||||||
| Primary | 2085 (99.9) | 2 (0.1) | 0.0031 | 1.0 | – | |
| Unschooled | 4466 (99.5) | 22 (0.5) | 5.1 | 1.2–21.9 | 0.0268 | |
| Secondary | 1199 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.3 | 0.0–7.2 | 0.4954 | |
| Marital status | ||||||
| single | 1878 (99.8) | 3 (0.2) | 0.04442 | 1.0 | – | |
| Divorcee | 19 (100) | 0 (0) | 13.8 | 0.7–275.5 | 0.0864 | |
| As a couple or married | 3387 (99.5) | 18 (0.5) | 3.3 | 1.0–11.3 | 0.0542 | |
| Widower | 21 (100) | 0 (0) | 12.5 | 0.6–249 | 0.0984 | |
| Profession | ||||||
| Fisher (man) woman | 2211 (99.6) | 8 (0.4) | 0.00042 | 1.0 | – | |
| Farmer | 2097 (99.3) | 14 (0.7) | 1.9 | 0.8–4.6 | 0.1679 | |
| Student | 2108 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.0 | 0.9871 | ||
| Teacher | 4 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.0 | 0.9994 | ||
n (%) number of individuals (percentage of individuals), OR Odds Ratio, CI Confidence Interval
1Pearson’s Chi-squared test
2Fisher’s exact test