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Table 4 Association of survey type (HH vs. EPI-HF) and year (2005 vs. 2008) with prevalence of anaemia and parasitaemia among children 6-30 months of age in six districts in Malawi

From: Comparison of anaemia and parasitaemia as indicators of malaria control in household and EPI-health facility surveys in Malawi

 

Anaemia

Parasitaemia

 

Unadjusted

Adjusteda

Unadjusted

Adjustedb

 

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

 

P* = 0.36

P* = 0.45

P* = 0.16

P* = 0.17

2005 HH

Reference

Reference

Reference

Reference

2005 EPI-HF

0.90 (0.67-1.22)

1.04 (0.77-1.40)

1.37 (0.90-2.07)

1.3 (0.9-1.95)

2008 HH

0.69 (0.55-0.85)

0.74 (0.59-0.94)

0.50 (0.41-0.61)

0.4 (0.3-0.52)

2008 EPI-HF

0.74 (0.55-0.99)

0.88 (0.65-1.20)

0.47 (0.33-0.67)

0.4 (0.3-0.56)

  1. a adjusted for age, ethnicity, wealth, clinical malaria, slept under ITN the previous night, and district
  2. b adjusted for age, ethnicity, wealth, current fever, slept under ITN the previous night, and district
  3. * type 3 p-value for interaction between type of survey (HH vs. EPI-HF) and year (2005 vs. 2008)
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