Research Article

Survival Analysis of Birth Defect Infants and Children with Pneumonia Mortality in Ghana

Table 1

A Chi-Square test of association between dichotomous variable (death or no death) and explanatory variables.

VariablesInfant deathChild death
0101

Birth defectp-value = 0.0036

073 (45.34)88 (54.66)--
185 (62.96)50 (37.04)--

Preterm birthp-value = 0.0002p-value = 0.0001

066 (40.99)95 (59.01)64 (39.02)100 (60.98)
186 (63.70)49 (36.30)91 (68.94)41 (31.06)

Accidentp-value = 0.02068p-value = 0.0021

075 (46.58)86 (53.42)79 (48.17)85 (51.83)
182 (60.74)53 (39.26)88 (66.67)44 (33.33)

Pregnancy complicationsp-value = 0001

064 (39.75)97 (60.25)--
189 (65.93)46 (34.07)--

NHISp-value = 0.850p-value = 0.9294

083 (51.55)78 (48.45)85 (51.83)79 (48.17)
172 (53.33)63 (46.67)70 (53.03)62 (46.97)

Residencep-value = 0.9999p-value = 0.9999

080 (49.69)81 (50.31)83 (50.61)81 (49.39)
168 (50.37)67 (49.63)67 (50.76)65 (49.24)

Genderp-value = 0.9999p-value = 0.6673

076 (47.20)85 (52.80)78 (47.56)86 (52.44)
163 (46.67)72 (53.33)67 (50.76)65 (49.24)

Pneumoniap-value = 0.0003

0--76 (46.34)88 (53.66)
1--90 (68.18)42 (31.82)

Diarrhoeap-value = 0.0001

0--69 (42.07)95 (57.93)
1--94 (71.21)38 (28.79)