Determinants of public malaria awareness during the national malaria elimination programme: a cross-sectional study in rural China

Table 2 Outcome of multivariable analyses exploring predictors of public malaria awareness

Predictors	Reference	B	P	OR	95 % CI
Predictors	Reference	B	P	OR	Lower	Upper
Age	<29		<0.001
30–44		0.48	0.014	1.61	1.10	2.36
45–59		0.86	<0.001	2.37	1.62	3.47
>60		1.22	<0.001	3.38	2.20	5.19
Type of county	Type-3		<0.001
Type-1		0.48	0.007	1.61	1.14	2.29
Type-2		0.97	<0.001	2.63	1.94	3.56
Self-assessment of household income level	Low		<0.001
Middle		0.58	<0.001	1.79	1.37	2.35
High		0.02	0.932	1.02	0.65	1.61
Distance to township hospital (km)	<1		0.008
1–2		−0.59	0.001	0.55	0.39	0.79
2–3		−0.43	0.027	0.65	0.45	0.95
>3		−0.38	0.024	0.68	0.49	0.95
History of suffering from malaria	No	0.85	<0.001	2.33	1.71	3.18
Community media	No	1.38	<0.001	3.99	3.04	5.25
Electronic media	No	0.59	<0.001	1.80	1.32	2.45
Education	<7 years		0.002
7–9 years study		0.15	0.335	1.16	0.86	1.56
>9 years study		0.71	0.001	2.04	1.36	3.05
Constants		−2.51	<0.001	0.08

ISSN: 1475-2875