Principal component analysis of socioeconomic factors and their association with malaria in children from the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Table 2 Influence of socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors on malaria in a multivariate logistic regression analysis.

			Stepwise logistic Regression
Determinants	OR¹	CI	p-value	OR¹	CI	p-value
Reference*	1
Economic status²
'average'	0.88	0.66 - 1.16	0.35	0.88	0.67-1.15	0.34
'rich'	0.56	0.41 - 0.76	< 0.001	0.56	0.42-0.75	< 0.001
Use of protection measures³	0.71	0.51 - 1.00	0.05	0.72	0.51-1.00	0.05
Age < 1 - ≤ 5 years	3.34	2.57-4.36	< 0.001	3.39	2.61-4.40	< 0.001
Age > 5 years	2.10	1.52 - 2.88	< 0.001	2.04	1.51-2.75	< 0.001
Place of Residence
West of Agogo	0.77	0.43 - 1.37	0.38	0.78	0.44-1.37	0.38
Near street	0.52	0.37 - 0.74	< 0.001	0.51	0.36-0.72	< 0.001
Greater Konongo	0.39	0.28- 0.53	< 0.001	0.39	0.29-0.54	< 0.001
Ethnic group	0.90	0.63 - 1.29	0.58
Number of children	1.19	0.87- 1.64	0.28
Sex	0.88	0.70 - 1.10	0.26
Mother's age	1.02	0.78-1.33	0.91

*Reference: Economic status ‚poor', no use of protection measures, age ≤ 1 year, place of residence ‚Greater Agogo', Ethnic group ‚Northeners, > 4 children, sex: male, mother age ≤ 30 years of age.
¹Odds ratio mutually adjusted with all other variables in a multivariable logistic regression
²Economic status classified by using factor 1 of PCA (Table 1)
³Reported protection measures such as bed net or window fences

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