Table 1 Sociodemographic and biological characteristics of the included children by sites
LTV | p | FGM | p | KMT | p | FCV | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(N = 387) | (N = 98) | (N = 357) | (N = 280) | |||||||||
General characteristics | ||||||||||||
Sex ratio | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | ||||||||
Mean temperature ± SD (°C) | 38.4 ± 1.2 | 38.4 ± 1.1 | 37.8 ± 1.3 | 38.3 ± 1 | 0.0001 | |||||||
Mean age ± SD (month) | 47.3 ± 34.7 | 44.03 ± 39.1 | 53.7 ± 49.1 | 59.4 ± 37.5 | 0.0001 | |||||||
Haemoglobin (g/dl) | 9.4 ± 2.2 | ND | 9.7 ± 1.9 | 10 ± 1.7 | 0.0001 | |||||||
WBC (×103/µl)a | 10.3 ± 6.3 | ND | 9.4 ± 3.9 | 8.9 ± 6.2 | 0.0009 | |||||||
RBC (×106/µl)b | 3.5 ± 0.9 | ND | 4.0 ± 0.8 | 4.5 ± 2.7 | 0.0001 | |||||||
Platelet (×103/µl) | 144.1 ± 121.6 | ND | 239.6 ± 134.9 | 255.3 ± 131.2 | 0.0001 | |||||||
Age group | Prevalence of malaria infection [%; (n/N)] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<60 months | 77.6 (211/272) | 50.7 (36/71) | 31.6 (72/228) | 15.1 (23/152) | ||||||||
>60 months | 84.2 (80/95) | 58.3 (24/24) | 46.1 (53/115) | 28.7 (31/108) | ||||||||
p | 0.2 | 0.68 | 0.01 | 0.004 | ||||||||
Prevention measures | Number of children (%, n) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Uninfected | Infected | p | Uninfected | Infected | p | Uninfected | Infected | p | Uninfected | Infected | p | |
Bed net | 66.7 (48) | 42.7 (126) | 0.004 | 71.1 (32) | 79.2 (42) | 0.48 | 66.2 (147) | 64.6 (82) | 0.84 | 53.3 (113) | 48.2 (27) | 0.59 |
Insecticides | 13.9 (10) | 14.1 (40) | 0.88 | 21.9 (9) | 18.9 (10) | 0.91 | 30.2 (67) | 27.8 (35) | 0.72 | 39.3 (83) | 33.9 (19) | 0.55 |
Received an IEK on malaria | 28.6 (20) | 23.7 (67) | 0.02 | 95.2 (40) | 92.2 (47) | 0.85 | 73.2 (161) | 74.0 (91) | 0.97 | 65.4 (138) | 61.8 (34) | 0.73 |