Table 1 Characteristics of household and children and crude results of malaria test (n = 187)
From: Malaria infection and predictor factors among Chadian nomads’ children
Variables | N (%) | Malaria test n (%) | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Negative 141 (75.40) | Positive 46 (24.60) | |||
Gender | ||||
Female | 90 (48.1) | 73 (81.1) | 17 (18.9) | 0.091 |
Male | 97 (51.9) | 68 (70.1) | 29 (29.9) | |
Age - range in months | ||||
3–12 | 19 (10.2) | 13 (68.4) | 6 (31.6) | 0.574 |
12–60 | 168 (89.8) | 128 (79.2) | 40 (23.8) | |
Household Wealth Quintiles | ||||
Lowest | 80 (42.8) | 68 (85.0) | 12 (15.0) | 0.020 |
Middle | 44 (23.5) | 32 (72.7) | 12 (27.3) | |
Highest | 63 (33.7) | 41 (65.1) | 22 (34.9) | |
Ethnic group | ||||
Arab | 68 (36.4) | 53 (77.9) | 15 (22.1) | 0.004 |
Daza | 68 (36.4) | 58 (85.3) | 10 (14.7) | |
Fulani | 51 (27.2) | 30 (58.8) | 21 (41.2) | |
Head of household marital status | ||||
Widowed/divorced | 13 (7.0) | 9 (69.2) | 4 (30.8) | 0.034 |
Monogamy | 136 (72.7) | 109 (80.1) | 27 (19.9) | |
Polygamy | 38 (20.3) | 23 (60.5) | 15 (39.5) | |
Reflex in case of malaria | ||||
Street drug seller | 86 (46.0) | 71 (82.6) | 15 (17.4) | 0.091 |
Health facility | 65 (34.8) | 44 (67.7) | 21 (32.3) | |
Traditional drug | 36 (19.2) | 26 (72.2) | 10 (27.8) | |
Knowledge of malaria | ||||
Poor | 40 (76.9) | 12 (23.1) | 52(27.8) | 0.851 |
Accurate | 101 (74.8) | 34 (25.2) | 135 (72.2) | |
Utilization of mosquito net (all type) | ||||
Poor | 26 (76.5) | 8 (23.5) | 34 (18.3) | 1.000 |
Accurate | 115 (75.7) | 37 (24.3) | 152 (81.7) | |
Utilization of LLIN | ||||
Poor | 154 (82.4) | 116 (75.3) | 38 (24.7) | 1.000 |
Accurate | 33 (17.6) | 25 (75.8) | 8 (24.2) | |
Main water source | ||||
Surface | 46 (71.9) | 18 (28.1) | 64 (34.2) | 0.250 |
Piped | 35 (68.6) | 16 (31.4) | 51 (27.3) | |
Tower | 8 (88.9) | 1 (11.1) | 9 (4.8) | |
Well | 52 (82.5) | 11 (17.5) | 63 (33.7) | |
Province | ||||
Chari Baguirmi | 59 (31.5) | 40 (67.8) | 19 (32.2) | 0.001 |
Hadjer Lamis | 103 (55.1) | 90 (87.4) | 13 (12.6) | |
Moyen Chari | 25 (13.4) | 11 (44.0) | 14 (56.0) | |
District | ||||
Dourbali | 33 (17.6) | 21 (63.6) | 12 (36.4) | 0.00003 |
Massaguet | 103 (55.1) | 90 (87.4) | 13 (12.6) | |
Massenya | 26 (13.9) | 19 (73.1) | 7 (26.9) | |
Niellim | 25 (13.4) | 11 (44.0) | 14 (56.0) | |
SMC area | ||||
Yes | 162 (86.6) | 130 (80.2) | 32 (19.8) | 0.0003 |
No | 25 (13.4) | 11 (44.0) | 14 (56.0) | |
Season | ||||
Rainy | 106 (56.7) | 83 (78.3) | 23 (21.7) | 0.308 |
Dry | 81 (43.3) | 58 (71.6) | 23 (28.4) | |