Agreement among Four Prevalence Metrics for Urogenital Schistosomiasis in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Table 2

Results of logistic regression models showing the agreement between prevalence metrics (models 1a, 1b, and 1c).

	Boys		Girls
	Adj-OR	CI95%	Adj-OR	CI95%
Model 1a: = eggs in urine
Measured hematuria		(9.83, 57.80)	40.00	(18.22, 87.83)
Ages 11–	0.94	(0.42, 2.09)	0.90	(0.43, 1.88)
Ages 15+	0.47	(0.18, 1.23)	0.65	(0.26, 1.62)
Town:	0.89	(0.38, 2.11)	0.79	(0.37, 1.69)
Model 1b: = measured hematuria
Self-reported macrohematuria	1.04	(0.39, 2.74)	4.09	(2.12, 7.89)
Ages 11–14	0.74	(0.35, 1.56)	1.31	(0.67, 2.56)
Ages 15+	1.07	(0.40, 2.88)	0.67	(0.28, 1.62)
Town:	1.67	(0.65, 4.31)	10.68	(4.41, 25.91)
Town:	4.30	(1.85, 9.99)	10.68	(4.58, 24.90)
Model 1c: = measured hematuria
Self-reported swimming	2.10	(0.87, 5.05)	3.60	(1.64, 7.94)
Ages 11–14	0.77	(0.36, 1.63)	0.97	(0.50, 1.88)
Ages 15+	1.21	(0.44, 3.36)	0.63	(0.26, 1.49)
Town:	1.41	(0.53, 3.75)	10.91	(4.49, 26.49)
Town:	2.60	(0.94, 7.02)	8.14	(3.49, 19.02)

group 1 (ages 6–10 years) was the reference category for the “age” variable for all models.
group 2 (Adasawase) was the reference category for the “town” variable.
group 1 (Akwaboso, Mampong, and Muoso) was the reference category for the “town” variable.
indicates statistical significance at the 0.05 level.