Table 5.
Predictors of cure rate at three weeks post-single-dose albendazole mass drug administration.
| Variables | Hookworm | A. lumbricodes | T. trichiura | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured N (%) |
cOR (95% CI) | p | Cured N (%) |
cOR (95% CI) | p | aOR (95% CI) | p | Cured N (%) | cOR (95% CI) | p | aOR (95% CI) | p | ||
| Sex | Female | 33 (97.1) | 1 | 0.87 | 542 (94.9) | 1 | 0.76 | 137 (18.1) | 1 | 0.59 | ||||
| Male | 26 (96.3) | 0.78 (0.04–14.3) |
470 (95.3) | 1.09 (0.62–1.91) |
110 (17) | 0.93 (0.70–0.22) |
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| Age categories | 5–9 years | 13 (100) | 1 | 278 (97.2) | 1 | 0.06 | 1 | 0.06 | 74 (20) | 1 | 0.16 | 1 | 0.16 | |
| 10–15 years | 46 (95.8) | Omitted | 734 (94.3) | 0.48 (0.22–1.03) |
0.48 (0.22–1.04) |
173 (16.7) | 0.80 (0.59–0.09) |
0.80 (0.59–1.09) |
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| Stunting (HAZ) | Non-stunted | 32 (94.1) | 1 | 651 (95.6) | 1 | 0.33 | 160 (17.9) | 1 | 0.67 | |||||
| Stunted | 27 (100) | Omitted | 361 (94.3) | 0.94 (0.71–1.25) |
87 (17) | 0.94 (0.71–1.25) |
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| Wasting (BAZ) | Non-wasted | 55 (98.2) | 1 | 0.09 | 970 (95.2) | 1 | 0.57 | 237 (17.6) | 1 | 0.94 | ||||
| Wasted | 4(80) | 0.73 (0.03–1.52) |
42 (93.3) | 0.97 (0.49–1.96) |
10 (17.2) | 0.97 (0.49–0.96) |
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| Infection Intensity | Light | 61 (100) | - | 758 (95.8) | 1 | 0.07 | 1 | 0.12 | 241 (19.1) | 1 | <0.001 | 1 | <0.001 | |
| Moderate-to-heavy | 0 (0) | - | 254 (93.04) | 0.58 (0.32–1.04) |
0.62 (0.34–1.13) |
6(4.2) | 0.18 (0.08–0.43) |
0.21 (0.09–0.5) |
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| * Coinfections with other STH parasite species | Mono-infection | 4 (100) | 1 | 112 (98.3) | 1 | 0.12 | 1 | 0.16 | 113 (25.8) | 1 | <0.001 | 1 | <0.001 | |
| Dual or triple coinfection | 55 (96.5) | Omitted | 900 (94.7) | 0.32 (0.77–1.34) |
0.36 (0.09–1.53) |
134 (13.9) | 0.46 (0.34–0.61) |
0.5 (0.38–0.67) |
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* Coinfections with other STH parasites; cOR: crude odds ratio; aOR: adjusted odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; HAZ: height-for-age z score; BAZ: BMI-for-age z-scores; STH: Soil-transmitted helminth.