Risk factors of acute respiratory infections among under five children attending public hospitals in southern Tigray, Ethiopia, 2016/2017

Table 3 Overall factors associated with acute respiratory infection among under-five children in Southern Tigray public hospitals, Ethiopia, 2016/2017 (multivariate analysis).(cases 96, controls 192)

Variables	Participant type		AOR (95% CI)
Variables	Cases	Controls	AOR (95% CI)
Educational status of mother
Unable to read and write	36	48	1.987 (0.354–7.768)
Read and write	19	42	2.249 (0.803–6.298)
Primary	16	28	1.656 (0.446–6.143)
Secondary	15	59	3.098 (1.387–18.729)^*
Preparatory	6	15	2.012 (0.274–14.771)
College/University	0	4	1
Occupation of mother
Government employee	9	32	1
Student	1	4	0.052 (0.002–1.258)
Farmer	16	50	3.134 (0.537–18.288)
Merchant	13	32	0.888 (0.165 (4.777)
Daily worker	12	7	0.206 (0.032–1.350)
House wife	41	71	1.412 (0.291–6.861)
Household family size
4 or less	27	76	1
5–7	47	108	1.635 (0.279–9.586)
8 and above	18	12	0.627 (0.079–4.978)
Cow dung use
Yes	45	110	2.21 (1.121–9.373)^*
No	47	86	1
Smoker in the house
Yes	12	4	0.638 (0.046–0.1.01)
No	80	192	1
Nutritional status
Wasted	7	20	2.89 (1.584–8.951)^*
Not wasted	84	157	1
Number of siblings
0	15	48	1
1–2	23	64	4.186 (0.590–29.675)
3 and above	54	84	2.766 (0.272–28.183)
Birth order
First	13	50	1
Second	14	27	0.182 (0.025–1.307)
Third	13	38	0.130 (0.015–1.157)
4th and above	52	81	0.229 (0.037–1.411)

Hosmer and lemeshow’s goodness of model test was found to be chi-square of 13.997 with p-value of 0.82 which implies the goodness of the model to predict the outcome
^*Significant at p < 0.05

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