Malaria Knowledge, Concern, Land Management, and Protection Practices among Land Owners and/or Managers in Lowland versus Highland Ecuador

Table 2

Summary of binary logistic regression results, from answers to two statements related to knowledge of where malaria occurs and three statements related to concern about malaria and mosquitoes. Gender (reference event = male) and altitude category (reference event = below 1500 m) were included as potential factors. Bonferroni-corrected significance levels are α = 0.025 for “I can get malaria…” and α = 0.016 for “I am concerned about…” Positive Z-scores indicate that the reference event (e.g., male, below 1500 m) were categories that provided the answer more often than the alternative (e.g., female, above 1500 m).

	Factor	Odds ratio	C.I.+	C.I.−	Z	P
I can get malaria…
… on my property	Gender (m)	0.66	1.25	0.35	−1.28	0.202
	Altitude (b)	9.10	18.42	9.10	6.15	<0.001
	coefficient				−5.46	<0.001
… above 3000 m in altitude	Gender (m)	0.41	0.80	0.21	−2.61	0.009
	Altitude (b)	2.46	4.82	1.26	2.62	0.009
	coefficient				−2.41	0.016
I am concerned about…
… insect-borne disease	Gender (m)	0.66	1.17	0.37	−1.42	0.156
	Altitude (b)	3.80	6.82	2.12	4.47	<0.001
	coefficient				2.22	0.026
… mosquitoes on my property	Gender (m)	0.49	0.90	0.26	−2.28	0.022
	Altitude (b)	4.33	8.22	2.28	4.47	<0.001
	coefficient				3.38	0.001
… malaria on my property	Gender (m)	0.79	1.39	0.45	−0.81	0.415
	Altitude (b)	2.87	5.08	1.62	3.62	<0.001
	coefficient				2.18	0.029