Research Article
Assessment of Prevalence of Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among AIDS Patients from Asella, Oromia, Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of PLHIV in Asella Town, Southeast Ethiopia.
| Variables () | Frequency | Percentage (%) |
| Age | | | 18-29 | 83 | 16 | 30-45 | 280 | 53.9 | >45 | 156 | 30.1 | Sex | | | Male | 209 | 40.3 | Female | 310 | 59.7 | Ethnicity | | | Oromo | 317 | 61.1 | Amhara | 168 | 32.4 | Gurage | 24 | 4.6 | Tigray | 4 | .8 | Others (Sidama, Hadiya, and Wolaita) | 6 | 1.2 | Religion | | | Orthodox | 333 | 64.2 | Muslim | 145 | 27.9 | Protestant | 35 | 6.7 | Catholic | 6 | 1.2 | Educational status | | | Unable to read and write | 73 | 14.1 | Read/write but no formal education | 68 | 13.1 | Elementary school | 183 | 35.3 | Secondary school | 112 | 21.6 | Grade 12 complete | 47 | 9.1 | College and above | 36 | 6.9 | Occupation | | | Farmer | 164 | 31.6 | Full-time housewife | 54 | 10.4 | Housewife with occasional small-scale trade | 69 | 13.3 | Merchant | 72 | 13.9 | Governmental employee | 37 | 7.1 | Nongovernmental employee | 19 | 3.7 | Student | 31 | 6.0 | Day laborer | 63 | 12.1 | Jobless | 10 | 2 | Marital status | | | Single | 42 | 8.1 | Married | 184 | 35.5 | Divorced | 144 | 27.7 | Widowed | 111 | 21.4 | Live-in cohabiting | 38 | 7.3 | Monthly income (USD) | | | <13.5 | 131 | 25.2 | 13.5-27 | 167 | 32.2 | 27-54 | 130 | 25.1 | 54-135 | 91 | 17.5 | Head of household | | | Male | 321 | 61.8 | Female | 198 | 38.2 | Family size | | | <3 | 271 | 52.2 | 3-6 | 229 | 44.1 | ≥7 | 19 | 3.7 |
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