Determinants of multimorbidity of infectious diseases among under-five children in Bangladesh: role of community context

Table 4 Community-level random effects and model characteristics of the random intercept Poisson regression models of the risk of multimorbidity among under-five Bangladeshi children

Random-effects measures	Multimorbidity status^a
Random-effects measures	Null Model^b	Model-I^b	Model-II^b
Level 2: Community
Variance	0.096	0.081	0.072
Variance 95% Confidence Interval (CI)	(0.076, 0.121)	(0.063, 0.104)	(0.055, 0.094)
Median Rate Ratio (MRR)	1.34	1.31	1.29
Likelihood Ratio Test statistic^c	194.81	149.48	126.72
Likelihood Ratio Test p-value	0.001	0.001	0.001
No of communities	672	672	672
No of children	8,398	8,398	8,398

^a Multimorbidity status is a count variable of the number of conditions a child suffered from in two weeks preceding the survey; ^b Null model is an empty model without any covariates, Model-I includes all covariates excluding the community-level characteristics, Model-II includes all covariates; ^c Likelihood ratio tests were performed against standard Poisson regression models with the same covariates respectively

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