Research Article

Prevalence of Thinness and Stunting and Associated Factors among Adolescent School Girls in Adwa Town, North Ethiopia

Table 2

Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression of factors associated with thinness among adolescent school girls, Adwa town, Northern Ethiopia, 2015.

CharacteristicsThinnessCOR (95% CI)AOR (95% CI)
YesNo

Age of adolescent
 Early33 (23.2%)109 (76.8%)1.98 (1.14, 3.44)2.15 (1.14, 4.03)
 Middle112 (24.7%)341 (75.3%)2.15 (1.37, 3.35)1.96 (1.20, 3.18)
 Late29 (13.2%)190 (86.8%)11
Place of residence
 Urban84 (16.4%)428 (83.6%)1
 Rural90 (29.8%)212 (70.2%)2.16 (1.54, 3.03)1.31 (0.59, 2.93)
Type of school
 Governmental167 (22.8%)565 (77.2%)3.16 (1.43, 7.00)2.89 (1.20, 6.91)
 Private7 (8.5%)75 (91.5%)11
Education status of mother
 No formal96 (28.8%)237 (71.2%)3.7 (1.99, 6.89)2.34 (1.14, 4.80)
 Primary37 (22.0%)131 (78.0%)2.58 (1.31, 5.09)1.78 (0.86, 3.66)
 Secondary28 (15.5%)153 (84.5%)1.67 (0.83, 3.374)1.29 (0.61, 2.73)
 College and above13 (9.8%)119 (90.2%)11
Meals per day
 <3 meals/day80 (29.5%)191 (70.5%)2.00 (1.42, 2.81)1.66 (1.12, 2.46)
 ≥3 meals/day94 (17.3%)449 (82.7%)11
History of illness
 Yes31 (32.0%)66 (68.0%)1.88 (1.18, 3.00)1.40 (0.83, 2.35)
 No143 (19.9%)574 (80.1%)11
Home latrine
 Yes111 (16.8%)550 (83.2%)11
 No63 (41.2%)90 (58.8%)3.46 (2.36, 5.07)1.54 (0.91, 2.59)
Family size
 ≤559 (13.2%)387 (86.8%)11
 >5115 (31.2%)253 (68.8%)2.98 (2.09, 4.23)2.53 (1.66, 3.86)
Source of drinking water
 Improved126 (17.6%)589 (82.4%)11
 Nonimproved48 (48.5%)51 (51.5%)4.4 (2.83, 6.82)3.27 (1.98, 5.40)
Wealth quintile
 1 quintile41 (19.5%)169 (80.5%)1.02 (0.63, 1.66)0.95 (0.54, 1.70)
 2 quintile55 (27.5%)145 (72.5%)1.60 (1.01, 2.54)1.15 (0.66, 1.99)
 3 quintile36 (19.6%)148 (80.4%)1.03 (0.62, 1.69)0.95 (0.54, 1.66)
 4 quintile42 (19.1%)178 (80.9%)11

= value < 0.05.