Contact screening and risk factors for TB among the household contact of children with active TB: a way to find source case and new TB cases

Table 5 Multivariate analysis of risk factors for type of TB among the screened household contacts of children with active TB (n = 223)

Variables	β	SE	OR	95% CI	P- value
Age ≤ 2	0.659	0.493	1.933	0.735–5.085	0.181
Income < 5000 PKR	1.239	1.149	3.453	0.364–32.797	0.281
Living in shelter	0.825	0.506	2.281	0.847–6.145	0.103
Members per household > 6	0.557	0.747	1.745	0.404–7.544	0.456
Members per household ≤6	−0.557	0.747	0.573	0.133–2.477	0.456
Time spent 12–17 h	−0.331	0.791	0.718	0.152–3.386	0.676
Time spent > 18 h	1.543	0.695	4.681	1.198–18.294	0.026
HHC with TB	2.727	0.533	15.288	5.378–43.457	< 0.001
HHC with no TB	−2.727	0.533	0.065	0.023–0.186	< 0.001
HHC with smoking	1.979	0.610	7.094	2.128–23.648	0.001
HHC without smoking	−1.979	0.610	0.138	0.042–0.457	0.001
Using boiled water	−1.407	0.753	0.245	0.056–1.072	0.062
Using water without boiling	1.407	0.753	4.097	0.937–17.906	0.062

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