Undernutrition and associated risk factors among school age children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Factors associated with underweight among school age children in district 8, Lideta sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March, 2014

Variable	Category	Underweight		Crude odds ratio (95%CI)	Adjusted odds ratio^¶(95%CI)
Variable	Category	Yes	No	Crude odds ratio (95%CI)	Adjusted odds ratio^¶(95%CI)
Family size	2-5	43	264	1	1
Family size	6-8	29	105	1.65 (0.98-2.78)	2.82 (1.45-5.48)**
	>8	0	18	NA	NA
Main decision maker	Father	49	155	1	1
	Mother	10	72	0.44 (0.21-0.92)*	0.39 (0.16-0.94)*
	Both by discussion	14	159	0.28 (0.14-0.59)***	0.11 (0.04-0.26)***
Ethnicity of mother	Oromo	31	104	1	1
	Amhara	11	118	0.31(0.15-0.65)**	0.32 (0.13-0.79)*
	Tigri	21	63	0.12(0.59-2.11)	1.72 (0.77-3.74)
	Gurage	4	77	0.17(0.59-0.51)**	0.12 (0.04-0.42)**
	Others	6	24	0.84 (0.47-1.43)	0.29 (0.08-1.12)
Maternal age	20-35	49	221	1	1
Maternal age	>35	25	164	0.69 (0.43-1.27)	0.38 (0.15-0.97)*
Maternal age at birth	<20	25	53	1	1
Maternal age at birth	≥20	47	334	0.31 (0.11-0.39)***	0.35 (0.15-0.81)*
Birth order	≤2	59	238	1	1
Birth order	>2	39	123	1.28 (0.74-1.98)	2.85 (1.35-6.02)**
Presence of hand washing facility	Yes	39	240	1	1
Presence of hand washing facility	No	35	145	1.49 (0.95-2.67)	2.08 (1.04-1.45)*

Note: * = P < 0.05, ** = P < 0.01, *** = P <0.001 NA: not applicable
¶⁼adjusted (from multivariate logistic regression model) for socio-economic and demographic characters of parents and children and health caring practices and environmental conditions (detail list available in the data analysis section), but only values of variables which showed significant association either in the bivariate or multivariate regression analysis were reported in the table.

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