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Table 2 Prevalence of anaemia and microcytic anaemia as affected by socio-demographic and clinical parameters

From: Burden of moderate to severe anaemia and severe stunting in children < 3 years in conflict-hit Mount Cameroon: a community based descriptive cross-sectional study

Characteristics

Category

N

Prevalence of anaemia

P-value

Microcytic anaemia

P value

All

All

649

84.0 (545)

59.3 (385)

Socio-demographic

 Age group in years

0.1–1.0

206

88.3 (182)

0.022

53.4 (110)

0.072

1.1–2

222

85.1 (189)

59.9 (133)

2.1–3

221

78.8 (174)

64.3 (142)

 Sex

Female

327

81.0 (265)

0.040

54.1 (177)

0.007

Male

322

87.0 (280)

64.6 (208)

 Site

Dibanda

161

87.6 (141)

0.270

59.6 (96)

0.988

Ekona

273

83.9 (229)

59.0 (161)

Muea

215

81.4 (175)

59.5 (128)

 Educational level of parent/caregiver

No formal

273

98.2 (268)

<  0.001

70.3 (192)

< 0.001

Primary

154

90.3 (139)

63.6 (98)

Secondary

166

63.3 (105)

41.6 (69)

Tertiary

40

45.0 (18)

40.0 (16)

 Infant feeding habit

NBF

122

86.1 (105)

0.761

52.5 (64)

0.182

EBF

134

82.8 (111)

63.4 (85)

MF

393

83.7 (329)

60.1 (236)

Clinical factors

 Febrile status

Febrile

36

83.3 (30)

0.914

63.9 (23)

0.566

Afebrile

613

84.0 (515)

59.1 (362)

 Malaria parasite status

Positive

191

84.8 (162)

0.706

55.0 (105)

0.145

Negative

458

83.6 (383)

61.0 (280)

 Undernourished

Yes

249

87.2 (217)

0.082

64.3 (160)

0.043

No

400

82.0 (328)

56.3 (225)

 Stunted

Yes

210

87.6 (184)

0.080

66.2 (139)

0.014

No

439

82.2 (361)

56.0 (246)

 Wasted

Yes

41

92.7 (38)

0.116

65.9 (27)

0.379

No

608

83.4 (507)

58.9 (358)

 Underweight

Yes

85

87.1 (74)

0.406

65.9 (56)

0.187

No

564

83.5 (471)

58.3 (329)

  1. EBF Exclusive breastfeeding, MF Mixed feeding, NBF No breast feeding. P- values in bold are statistically significant