Research Article
Prevalence of Malaria Infection and Risk Factors Associated with Anaemia among Pregnant Women in Semiurban Community of Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India
Table 2
Factors associated with peripheral parasitemia during malaria in pregnancy using univariate and multivariate analysis.
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(Positive/total) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | p | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | p |
| | Factors at ANC | | | | | | | 1st/2nd pregnancies | 6.3 (64/1001) | 4.45 (2.32–9.61) | 0.0001 | 4.23 (2.15–8.42) | 0.0001 | | 3rd or greater pregnancies | 1.4 (4/270) | 1 | 1 | | Age < 20 | 7.2 (12/166) | 1.43 (0.34–3.76) | 0.052 | 1.31 (0.26–2.84) | 0.076 | | Age ≥ 20 | 5.0 (56/1105) | 1 | 1 | | Fever within past week | 16.1 (27/167) | 4.42 (3.64–8.21) | 0.002 | 4.62 (3.73–9.83) | 0.001 | | No fever within past week | 3.7 (41/1104) | 1 | 1 | | Bed net use | 7.6 (42/563) | 1.12 (0.27–2.47) | 0.072 | 1.37 (0.48–3.24) | 0.084 | | No bed net use | 6.7 (26/374) | 1 |
1 | | Rural | 7.1 (61/857) | 4.21 (1.53–5.21) | 0.003 | 4.36 (2.48–7.32) | 0.0001 | | Not rural | 1.7 (7/414) | 1 | 1 | | Tribal caste | 6.3 (23/363) | 1.26 (0.64–2.96) | 0.054 | 1.42 (0.81–3.75) | 0.12 | | No tribal caste | 4.9 (45/908) | 1 | 1 | | No formal education | 6.1 (22/357) | 1.22 (0.42–2.46) | 0.065 | 1.34 (0.68–3.92) | 0.084 | | Formal education | 5.0 (46/914) | 1 | 1 | | Factors at DU | | | | | | | 1st/2nd pregnancies | 5.8 (32/547) | 3.9 (0.97–11.56) | 0.004 | 3.62 (0.94–7.83) | 0.001 | | 3rd or greater pregnancies | 1.5 (5/323) | 1 | 1 | | Age < 20 | 8.2 (28/109) | 2.32 (1.32–9.37) | 0.062 | 2.47 (1.17–10.63) | 0.14 | | Age ≥ 20 | 3.6 (9/761) | 1 | 1 | | Fever within past week | 13.9 (13/93) | 4.47 (1.25–12.42) | 0.0001 | 4.43 (1.38–11.57) | 0.0001 | | No fever within past week | 3.1 (24/777) | 1 | 1 | | Bed net use | 5.3 (27/503) | 1.97 (0.83–7.62) | 0.084 | 1.62 (0.58–6.39) | 0.27 | | No bed net use | 2.7 (10/367) | 1 | 1 | | Rural | 7.1 (29/405) | 4.22 (0.41–4.51) | 0.003 | 3.87 (0.78–13.62) | 0.0001 | | Not rural | 1.7 (8/465) | 1 | 1 | | Tribal caste | 5.5 (14/251) | 1.51 (0.56–3.92) | 0.053 | 1.74 (0.83–5.38) | 0.59 | | No tribal caste | 3.7 (23/619) | 1 | 1 | | No formal education | 5.3 (17/321) | 1.46 (1.23–3.17) | 0.57 | 1.62 (0.87–4.63) | 0.21 | | Formal education | 3.6 (20/549) | 1 | 1 |
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ITN use was not evaluated in this model since ITN were very rarely used and because of quite lesser awareness about ITN among women.
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