Table 3.
Association of HAT infection with peasant activities, knowledge and information about HAT
| Sociodemographic characteristic | HAT status | Statistical test (p-value) |
Univariate logistic regression | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative n (%) |
Positive n (%) |
OR2 | 95% CI2 | p-value | ||
| Practice of peasant activities | ||||||
| No | 4140 (99.9) | 3 (0.1) | 0.00031 | 1.0 | – | |
| Yes | 4384 (99.5) | 22 (0.5) | 6.9 | 2.4–29.3 | 0.0017 | |
| Regular practice of peasant activities | ||||||
| Often (≤1/ week) | 369 (99.7) | 1 (0.3) | 0.99992 | 1.0 | – | |
| Always (> 2/week) | 4045 (99.5) | 21 (0.5) | 1.9 | 0.4–34.4 | 0.5259 | |
| Knowledge about HAT | ||||||
| No | 5593 (99.7) | 14 (0.3) | 0.42741 | 1.0 | – | |
| Yes | 2938 (99.6) | 11 (0.4) | 1.5 | 0.7–3.3 | 0.3184 | |
| Communication action used on HAT | ||||||
| Media | 950 (99.9) | 1 (0.1) | 0.12741 | 1.0 | – | |
| school | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.0 | 0.9968 | ||
| Missionary | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0.0 | 0.9954 | ||
| Sensitisation | 1985 (99.5) | 10 (0.5) | 4.8 | 0.9–8.8e+ 01 | 0.1358 | |
n (%) number of individuals (percentage of individuals), OR Odds Ratio, CI Confidence Interval
1Pearson’s Chi-squared test
2Fisher’s exact test