Magnitude, Severity, and Associated Factors of Anemia among Under-Five Children Attending Hawassa University Teaching and Referral Hospital, Hawassa, Southern Ethiopia, 2016

Table 4

Multivariate logistic regressions of selected variables associated with anemia among under-five children in Hawassa University Teaching and Referral hospital, southern Ethiopia, 2016.

Risk factor	Anemia	Unadjusted (COR)		Adjusted (AOR)
	N (%)	OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)	value
Child age
6–23	85 (48.9)	1.8 [1.0–3.1]	0.040	2.04 [1.13–3.69]	0.017
24–35	39 (39.8)	1.2 [0.7–2.3]	0.490	1.52 [0.78–2.91]	0.211
36–47	26 (34.7)	1 [0.5–1.9]	1.000	1.11 [0.55–2.24]	0.759
48–59	26 (34.7)	1		1
Residence
Urban	109 (38.4)	1		1
Rural	67 (48.6)	1.5 [1.0–2.3]	0.047	1.24 [0.76–2.02]	0.378
Mother’s education level
No formal	62 (48.1)	1.67 [1.0–2.7]	0.033	1.74 [1.00–3.02]	0.051
Primary	57 (42.9)	1.4 [0.8–2.2]	0.207	1.43 [0.82–2.52	0.208
Secondary or above	57 (35.6)	1		1
A. lumbricoides
Yes	29 (61.7)	2.5 [1.3–4.7]	0.004	2.44 [0.93–6.46]	0.071
No	147 (39.2)	1		1