Oral rehydration salt use and its correlates in low-level care of diarrhea among children under 36 months old in rural Western China

Table 3 Predictors of ORS use of diarrhea children below 36 months old in the low-level care in rural Western China

Variables	Univariate		^dMultivariate
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
^a,cORS use in HBC
Number of pre-school-age children
>1	0.46	0.19,1.10	0.29	0.10,0.86
1	1		1
Age of children
0-12 months	0.17	0.05,0.59	0.10	0.02,0.41
13-24 months	0.43	0.16,1.15	0.26	0.09,0.77
25-36 months	1		1
^bORS use in VLC
Drinking water
Boiled water often	2.82	1.57,5.05	2.77	1.30,5.91
No or boiled water occasionally	1		1
Receiving educational materials about childhood diseases
Receiving	3.52	2.03,6.11	3.08	1.54,6.16
Non-receiving	1		1
Available ORS in village clinics
Yes	3.96	2.54,6.19	3.94	2.25,6.90
No	1		1

^aFourteen household-level variables were entered together into GEE logistic model.
^bFourteen household-level variables and six village-level variables were together entered into GEE logistic regression model. ^cHBC = home-based care; VLC = village-level care; ORS = oral rehydration salt; OR=odds ratio; CI = credible interval.
^dOnly predictors at 5% of multivariate analysis model were listed.

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