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Table 5 Odds ratios for personally sleeping under a mosquito net every night among adults in rural Uganda

From: Social norms, misperceptions, and mosquito net use: a population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Uganda

 

AOR

(95% CI)

p value

Perceived daily mosquito net use as normative

2.94

(2.09, 4.14)

< 0.001

Did not know perception

1.10

(0.60, 2.03)

0.760

Perceived daily mosquito net use as not normative

1.0

–

–

Nets:people in the household from 0.5 and < 1.0 (vs < 0.5)

2.21

(1.47, 3.32)

< 0.001

Nets:people in the household is 1.0 and greater (vs < 0.5)

4.48

(2.91, 6.90)

< 0.001

Female (vs male)

1.47

(1.09, 1.99)

0.012

Married (vs single)

1.87

(1.33, 2.63)

< 0.001

Age

1.00

(0.99, 1.01)

0.548

Number of children in the household

0.85

(0.78, 0.93)

< 0.001

Number of additional adults in the household

0.89

(0.81, 0.98)

0.023

Primary school (vs none)

0.97

(0.61, 1.56)

0.900

Secondary school (vs none)

1.18

(0.67, 2.09)

0.561

Postgraduate studies (vs none)

2.43

(1.06, 5.61)

0.037

2nd household wealth quintile (vs lowest)

1.09

(0.63, 1.87)

0.766

3rd household wealth quintile (vs lowest)

1.98

(1.11, 3.54)

0.021

4th household wealth quintile (vs lowest)

1.49

(0.86, 2.99)

0.158

Highest household wealth quintile (vs lowest)

1.65

(0.91, 1.38)

0.102

Rainy season

0.97

(0.67, 1.38)

0.848

  1. Estimates were obtained using a multilevel logistic regression model that accounted for clustering of observations at the household level and also included dummy variables for village