Factors associated with malaria vaccine uptake in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana

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Table 6 Multivariate analysis of association between level of uptake and independent variables

Characteristic	Crude Odds ratio	95% Confidence interval	P-value	Adjusted Odds ratio	95% Confidence interval	P-value
Sub-Municipal	0.80	0.69–0.92	0.002	0.82	0.66–1.02	0.076
Penkwase (base)	1	1
Abesim	2.91	1.29–6.57	0.010	2.21	0.53–9.17	0.276
Antwikrom	5.36	1.71–16.79	0.004	2.01	0.16–26.03	0.593
Newtown/Baakoniaba	2.28	1.08–4.83	0.031	1.22	0.32–4.62	0.770
New Dormaa	1.41	0.73–2.73	0.303	0.36	0.10–1.29	0.117
Sunyani central	2.28	1.03–5.08	0.043	0.98	0.27–3.50	0.971
Education level of partner	1.02	0.78–1.35	0.866	1.02	0.60–1.75	0.936
Secondary education (base)	1	1
No formal education	2.56	0.55–11.89	0.230	0.93	0.02–31.06	0.970
Primary education	2.46	1.19–5.07	0.015	4.10	1.02–16.47	0.047
Tertiary education	2.08	1.25–3.45	0.005	4.72	1.27–17.55	0.020
Occupation of partner	1.13	0.89–1.44	0.305	1.27	0.84–1.92	0.257
Self-employed (base)	1	1
Unemployed	3.24	0.40–26.06	0.268	1.74	0.17–17.42	0.637
Farmer	3.07	1.05–9.01	0.041	0.97	0.08–11.06	0.980
Civil servant	1.365	0.84–2.23	0.214	0.61	0.16–2.31	0.464
Vaccines becoming many for children with the introduction of the malaria vaccine	0.60	0.38–0.97	0.038	0.29	0.14–0.61	0.004
No (base)	1	1
Yes	0.60	0.38–0.97	0.038	0.29	0.14–0.61	0.001
Experience with AEFI	0.57	0.41–0.81	0.001	0.58	0.41–0.83	0.003
Abscess (base)	1	1
Fever	3.09	1.56–6.09	0.001	2.27	1.13–5.10	0.023
Diarrhoea/vomiting	5.56	0.67–46.00	0.111	6.95	0.69–69.77	0.099

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