Research Article
Determinants of Oxygen Therapy in Childhood Pneumonia in a Resource-Constrained Region
Table 3
Association between Socio-demographic characteristics of the patients and the presence of hypoxaemia at presentation.
| | Socio-demographic characteristics | Hypoxaemic
(%) | Nonhypoxaemic
(%) | value |
| | Age range | | | | | 2–11 | 41 (50.6) | 127 (37.5) | 0.030 | | 12–23 | 24 (29.6) | 113 (33.3) | 0.523 | | 24–35 | 8 (9.9) | 48 (14.2) | 0.308 | | 36–47 | 8 (9.9) | 32 (9.4) | 0.904 | | 48–59 | 0 (0.0) | 19 (5.6) | 0.060** | | Total | 81 (100.0) | 339 (100.0) | | | Sex | | | | | Male | 39 (48.1) | 193 (56.9) | 0.153 | | Female | 42 (51.9) | 146 (43.1) | | | Total | 81 (100.0) | 339 (100.0) | | | Overcrowding | 9 (11.1) | 27 (8.0) | 0.348 | | Not appropriately immunized | 13 (16.0) | 58 (17.1) | 0.778 |
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Fisher’s exact test applied; : number of children. The figures in parentheses are percentages of the total in each column.
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