Appropriateness and Pattern of Antibiotic Prescription in Pediatric Patients at Adigart General Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia

Table 5

Factors associated with inappropriate use of antibiotics using multivariate logistic regression, Adigrat General Hospital, 2019 ().

	Variable	Appropriateness		AOR (ci)	value
		Yes	No
Gender	Male	260 (74.29)	90 (25.71)	—	—
	Female	236 (69.01)	106 (30.99)	.916 (.375-2.235)	.846
Age	<1 month	52 (83.87)	10 (16.13)	—	—
	1 month-1 year	54 (82.87)	12 (17.13)	1.317 (.366-4.736)	.673
	1 year-5 years	222 (77.15)	66 (22.85)	1.621 (.564-4.6620	.370
	6 years-10 years	122 (67.20)	60 (32.80)	3.225 (1.080-9.630)	.036
	11 years-18 years	44 (47.00)	50 (53.00)	18.69 (5.156-67.756)	.000
Drugs	Penicillins	190 (72.52)	72 (27.48)	.946 (.427-2.094)	.891
	Cephalosporins	142 (64.55)	78 (35.45)	1.990 (.905-4.379)	.087
	Fluoroquinolones	22 (64.71)	12 (35.29)	1.245 (.342-4.528)	.739
	Aminoglycosides	68 (75.56)	22 (24.44)	.843 (.127-3.34)	.467
	Macrolides	40 (76.92)	12 (23.08)	—	—