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Table 2 Factors associated with children missing visits

From: The impact on malaria of biannual treatment with azithromycin in children age less than 5 years: a prospective study

Characteristic at the visit 6 months before missing exam

Arm-age adjusted

Odds ratio (95% CI), p-value

Multivariate

Odds ratio (95% CI), p-value

AZ arm

0.77 (0.61–0.96), 0.02

0.76 (0.60–0.95), 0.017

Age (per month increase)

1.00 (0.99–1.01), 0.86

1.00 (0.99–1.01), 0.81

RDT positive

0.85 (0.63–1.13), 0.26

 

Clinical malaria

0.61 (0.38–0.98), 0.04

0.61 (0.38–0.98), 0.04

Taken malaria medication

0.93 (0.49–1.80), 0.84

 
  1. AZ azithromycin, RDT rapid diagnostic test for malaria, SD standard deviation