Prevalence and determinants of fever, ARI and diarrhea among children aged 6–59 months in Bangladesh

Rahman, Azizur; Hossain, Md. Moyazzem

doi:10.1186/s12887-022-03166-9

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Demographic, socio-economic and community and health characteristics of studied children aged 0–59 months and their percentage distribution by three illness (i.e. diarrhea, fever and ARI) in Bangladesh, 2017–18 (n = 8,421)

From: Prevalence and determinants of fever, ARI and diarrhea among children aged 6–59 months in Bangladesh

Selected variables	Categories	Diarrhea (%)		p-value	Fever (%)		p-value	ARI (%)		p-value
Selected variables	Categories	No	Yes	p-value	No	Yes	p-value	No	Yes	p-value
Demographic
Sex of child	Male^a	94.94	5.06	0.09	65.77	34.23	0.02	62.36	37.64	< 0.001
Sex of child	Female	95.68	4.32	0.09	68.20	31.80	0.02	66.25	33.75	< 0.001
Age of child (in months)	< 12^a	94.12	5.88	< 0.001	63.44	36.56	< 0.001	62.08	37.92	< 0.001
	13–24	91.21	8.79		60.73	39.27		59.67	40.33
	25 +	97.19	2.81		70.33	29.67		66.37	33.63
Currently breastfeeding	No^a	97.30	2.70	< 0.001	69.61	30.39	< 0.001	66.07	33.93	< 0.001
Currently breastfeeding	Yes	93.89	6.11	< 0.001	65.05	34.95	< 0.001	62.93	37.07	< 0.001
Age of mother at 1st birth (Years)	12-17^a	95.38	4.62	0.33	65.44	34.56	0.03	63.40	36.60	0.24
	18–25	95.12	4.88		67.92	32.08		64.66	35.34
	26 +	96.96	3.04		70.17	29.83		67.57	32.43
Mother's BMI	Thin^a	94.07	5.93	0.11	65.39	34.61	0.05	61.81	38.19	0.24
	Normal	95.43	4.57		66.14	33.86		64.39	35.61
	Overweight	95.56	4.44		68.79	31.21		64.46	35.54
Socio-economic
Father’s education	No^a	96.28	3.72	0.03	67.83	32.17	0.77	64.78	35.22	0.58
	Primary	94.51	5.49		66.94	33.06		63.51	36.49
	Secondary +	95.46	4.54		66.72	33.28		64.63	35.37
Mother’s education	No^a	93.78	6.22	0.18	69.89	30.11	0.25	70.59	29.41	< 0.001
	Primary	95.47	4.53		66.33	33.67		64.77	35.23
	Secondary +	95.41	4.59		66.87	33.13		63.26	36.74
Wealth index	Poorest^a	95.09	4.91	0.01	65.81	34.19	< 0.001	62.78	37.22	0.21
	Poorer	95.38	4.62		66.73	33.27		63.57	36.43
	Middle	94.08	5.92		65.47	34.53		64.02	35.98
	Richer	96.69	3.31		64.87	35.13		64.36	35.64
	Richest	95.19	4.81		71.89	28.11		66.54	33.46
Community and health
Place of delivery	With Health Facility^a	93.30	6.70	0.53	64.86	35.14	0.06	60.23	39.77	0.07
Place of delivery	Respondent's Home	93.73	6.27	0.53	62.37	37.63	0.06	62.68	37.32	0.07
Delivery by caesarean section	No^a	93.51	6.49	0.93	63.31	36.69	0.56	62.14	37.86	0.08
Delivery by caesarean section	Yes	93.57	6.43	0.93	64.14	35.86	0.56	60.16	39.84	0.08
No. of living children	1^a	94.79	5.21	0.04	67.01	32.99	0.30	61.58	38.42	< 0.001
	2–3	95.32	4.68		67.34	32.66		65.34	34.66
	4 or more	96.81	3.19		64.69	35.31		66.89	33.11
Religion	Muslim^a	95.13	4.87	0.02	66.45	33.55	< 0.001	64.14	35.86	0.59
Religion	Non-Muslim	97.17	2.83	0.02	72.47	27.53	< 0.001	65.18	34.82	0.59
Place of residence	Urban^a	95.58	4.42	0.47	69.05	30.95	0.01	65.24	34.76	0.23
Place of residence	Rural	95.21	4.79	0.47	66.14	33.86	0.01	63.84	36.16	0.23
Source of drinking water	Safe^a	95.12	4.88	0.04	66.53	33.47	0.04	63.94	36.06	0.18
Source of drinking water	Unsafe	96.42	3.58	0.04	69.45	30.55	0.04	65.96	34.04	0.18
Type of toilet facility	Modern^a	95.49	4.51	0.23	68.89	31.11	0.04	66.14	33.86	0.08
	Pit Latrine	95.02	4.98		65.95	34.05		63.39	36.61
	Others	96.15	3.85		67.45	32.55		64.19	35.81
Received BCG	No^a	98.88	1.12	< 0.001	79.61	20.39	< 0.001	80.73	19.27	< 0.001
Received BCG	Yes	93.14	6.86	< 0.001	62.43	37.57	< 0.001	60.03	39.97	< 0.001
Received DPT	No^a	96.57	3.43	< 0.001	71.20	28.80	< 0.001	69.66	30.34	< 0.001
Received DPT	Yes	92.81	7.19	< 0.001	61.82	38.18	< 0.001	59.52	40.48	< 0.001
Division	Barisal^a	93.53	6.47	0.11	61.64	38.36	0.01	62.28	37.72	< 0.001
	Chittagong	94.95	5.05		67.52	32.48		66.95	33.05
	Dhaka	96.18	3.82		69.26	30.74		67.79	32.21
	Khulna	96.12	3.88		68.73	31.27		63.95	36.05
	Mymensingh	94.63	5.37		66.67	33.33		62.43	37.57
	Rajshahi	94.27	5.73		65.40	34.60		58.85	41.15
	Rangpur	95.59	4.41		63.73	36.27		58.08	41.92
	Sylhet	95.45	4.55		66.18	33.82		65.01	34.99

^aReference category in the multivariate analysis
[Note: p-value < 0.1 for at least one disease is considered in identifying the significant determinants.]

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