Table 4 Caregivers’ Demographic characteristics associated with pre-hospital anti-malarial use
Variable | Anti-malarial use | Bivariate | Multivariate¥ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | OR (95% CI) | P-value | aOR (95% CI) | P-value | |
n = 72 (%) | n = 138 (%) | |||||
Age (years) | ||||||
 ≤ 30 | 36 (26.7) | 99 (73.3) | 0.40 (0.22–0.71) | 0.002 | 0.50 (0.26–0.96) | 0.038 |
>30 | 36 (48.0) | 39 (52.0) | 1 | Â | 1 | Â |
Sex | ||||||
 Female | 65 (33.7) | 128 (66.3) | 0.73 (0.26–1.99) | 0.532 | – |  |
 Male | 7 (41.2) | 10 (58.8) | 1 |  |  |  |
Education level | ||||||
  ≤ Primary | 44 (40.4) | 65 (59.6) | 1.77 (1.00–3.15) | 0.054 | 1.66 (0.90–3.07) | 0.106 |
  ≥ Secondary | 28 (27.7) | 73 (72.3) | 1 |  | 1 |  |
Relation | ||||||
 Mother | 62 (34.6) | 117 (65.4) | 1.11 (0.49–2.51) | 0.797 | – |  |
 Other | 10 (32.3) | 21 (67.7) | 1 |  |  |  |
#Children cared for | ||||||
 1 child | 9 (17.3) | 34 (82.7) | 0.32 (0.14–0.69) | 0.003 | 0.44 (0.18–1.06) | 0.067 |
   ≥ 2 children | 63 (39.9) | 95 (60.1) | 1 |  | 1 |  |