Between traditional remedies and pharmaceutical drugs: prevention and treatment of “Palu” in households in Benin, West Africa

Table 4 Association between the use of HM combined with PM to treat “Palu” versus PM exclusively and the respondents and the household’s characteristics, Cotonou, 2016

Variables	PM		PM + HM		Brut OR	CI95%		Adjusted OR^a	CI		P
	n	%	n	%	Brut OR	CI95%		Adjusted OR^a	CI		P
*Respondent information*
Age group (years)											0.0239
< 25	31	17.32	30	9.29	1			1
(25–35)	57	31.84	88	27.27	1.59	0.87	2.91	1.48	0.78	2.81	0.2242
(35–45)	44	24.58	88	27.24	2.07	1.11	3.84	2.12	1.10	4.09	0.0242
(45–55)	26	14.53	57	17.65	2.26	1.14	4.49	2.37	1.14	4.89	0.0201
(55–65)	10	5.59	37	11.46	3.82	1.62	9.04	3.91	1.59	9.58	0.0029
> = 65	11	6.15	23	7.12	2.16	0.90	5.19	2.72	1.04	7.11	0.0408
Sex
Male	72	39.56	101	30.61	1
Female	110	60.44	229	69.39	1.48	1.02	2.17
School level
None	20	11.05	81	24.62	1
Primary	41	22.65	94	28.57	0.57	0.31	1.04
Secondary	61	33.70	108	32.83	0.44	0.24	0.78
University	59	32.60	46	13.98	0.19	0.10	0.36
Place of birth
Cotonou	89	50.28	145	44.48	1
Other	88	49.72	181	55.52	1.26	0.87	1.82
Religion
Catholic	93	51.38	168	51.22	1
Other Christians	46	25.41	102	31.10	1.23	0.80	1.89
Muslims	27	14.92	46	14.02	0.94	0.55	1.62
Others	15	8.29	12	3.66	0.44	0.20	0.99
*Household information*
Type of the households
Monoparental	137	75.27	250	75.76	1
Biparental	45	24.73	80	24.24	0.97	0.64	1.48
Health insurance
No	151	86.29	294	91.88	1
Yes	24	13.71	26	8.13	0.56	0.31	0.99
“Tontine” group
No	115	66.09	175	55.03	1
Yes	59	31.91	143	44.97	1.59	1.08	2.34
Wealth index											< 0.0001
Very poor	3	1.65	24	7.27	1			1
Poor	36	19.78	107	32.42	0.37	0.11	1.31	0.42	0.11	1.51	0.1828
Intermediate	73	40.11	143	43.33	0.24	0.07	0.84	0.27	0.08	0.95	0.0425
Rich	55	30.22	51	15.45	0.12	0.03	0.41	0.13	0.03	0.46	0.0019
Very rich	15	8.24	5	1.52	0.04	0.01	0.20	0.04	0.01	0.19	< 0.0001

HM Herbal medicine, PM Pharmaceutical Medicine
^aAdjusted OR is provided only for the variables associated to the use of HM + PM at the univariate analysis

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