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.
| Variables | Infant death | Child death | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Birth defect | p-value = 0.0036 | | |
| 0 | 73 (45.34) | 88 (54.66) | - | - | 1 | 85 (62.96) | 50 (37.04) | - | - |
| Preterm birth | p-value = 0.0002 | p-value = 0.0001 |
| 0 | 66 (40.99) | 95 (59.01) | 64 (39.02) | 100 (60.98) | 1 | 86 (63.70) | 49 (36.30) | 91 (68.94) | 41 (31.06) |
| Accident | p-value = 0.02068 | p-value = 0.0021 |
| 0 | 75 (46.58) | 86 (53.42) | 79 (48.17) | 85 (51.83) | 1 | 82 (60.74) | 53 (39.26) | 88 (66.67) | 44 (33.33) |
| Pregnancy complications | p-value = 0001 | | |
| 0 | 64 (39.75) | 97 (60.25) | - | - | 1 | 89 (65.93) | 46 (34.07) | - | - |
| NHIS | p-value = 0.850 | p-value = 0.9294 |
| 0 | 83 (51.55) | 78 (48.45) | 85 (51.83) | 79 (48.17) | 1 | 72 (53.33) | 63 (46.67) | 70 (53.03) | 62 (46.97) |
| Residence | p-value = 0.9999 | p-value = 0.9999 |
| 0 | 80 (49.69) | 81 (50.31) | 83 (50.61) | 81 (49.39) | 1 | 68 (50.37) | 67 (49.63) | 67 (50.76) | 65 (49.24) |
| Gender | p-value = 0.9999 | p-value = 0.6673 |
| 0 | 76 (47.20) | 85 (52.80) | 78 (47.56) | 86 (52.44) | 1 | 63 (46.67) | 72 (53.33) | 67 (50.76) | 65 (49.24) |
| Pneumonia | | | p-value = 0.0003 |
| 0 | - | - | 76 (46.34) | 88 (53.66) | 1 | - | - | 90 (68.18) | 42 (31.82) |
| Diarrhoea | | | p-value = 0.0001 |
| 0 | - | - | 69 (42.07) | 95 (57.93) | 1 | - | - | 94 (71.21) | 38 (28.79) |
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