From: Psychosocial factors associated with malaria care-seeking in rural Ethiopia
Prompt care-seeking (Prevalence = 45%) | ||||
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OR | 95% CI | aOR | 95% CI | |
Ideational psychosocial factors | ||||
High care-seeking ideation (reference-low) | 2.12 | 1.46–3.06 | 2.65 | 1.74–4.02 |
Contextual psychosocial factors | ||||
Region | ||||
Amhara (reference) | 1.00 | N/A | 1.00 | N/A |
Oromia | 2.19 | 1.23–3.91 | 2.99 | 1.40–6.41 |
SNNPR | 1.79 | 1.04–3.10 | 1.77 | 0.86–3.65 |
Tigray | 1.27 | 0.73–2.20 | 1.17 | 0.61–2.25 |
High Malaria transmission zone (reference- no/low) | 0.84 | 0.57–1.26 | 0.85 | 0.46–1.55 |
Age in years | ||||
15–24 (reference) | 1.00 | N/A | 1.00 | N/A |
25–34 | 0.79 | 0.48–1.32 | 0.64 | 0.36–1.15 |
35–49 | 0.53 | 0.31–0.91 | 0.49 | 0.26—0.95 |
Primary education or more (reference- none) | 1.87 | 1.27–2.73 | 1.71 | 1.07–2.72 |
Non-Christian (reference-Christian) | 1.34 | 0.90–1.97 | 0.93 | 0.53–1.65 |
Married (reference- Not married) | 0.67 | 0.32–1.39 | 0.60 | 0.27–1.33 |
Wealth index | ||||
Poorest (reference) | 1.00 | N/A | 1.00 | N/A |
Poorer | 1.23 | 0.65–2.33 | 1.29 | 0.65–2.57 |
Middle | 1.58 | 0.95–2.61 | 1.41 | 0.79–2.51 |
Richer | 2.04 | 1.15–3.60 | 2.08 | 1.07–4.02 |
Richest | 1.55 | 0.92–2.61 | 1.29 | 0.65–2.54 |
Household has adequate bed nets (reference- no) | 1.30 | 0.78–2.15 | 1.43 | 0.80–2.54 |
Vulnerable household (reference- no) | 1.50 | 1.00–2.25 | 2.01 | 1.28–3.18 |
Household owns family health guide (reference-no) | 1.07 | 0.66–1.74 | 1.47 | 0.85–2.53 |
Survey timing | ||||
Baseline (2016) | 1.00 | N/A | 1.00 | N/A |
Follow up (2019) | 0.79 | 0.54–1.16 | 0.75 | 0.49–1.15 |