Utilization of Deworming Drugs and Its Individual and Community Level Predictors among Pregnant Married Women in Cameroon: A Multilevel Modeling

Table 1

Coverage of deworming medication utilization among married pregnant married in Cameron: evidence from 2018/19 CDHS.

Variables	Frequency	Unweighted percent	Weighted percent	Deworming		Chi-square, value
				No, freq. (perc.)	Yes, freq. (perc.)
Maternal educational level						,
No education	2,070	25.68	29.56	1,079 (83.84)	208 (16.16)
Primary school	2,721	33.76	31.1	1,102 (66.99)	543 (33.01)
Secondary school	2,868	35.58	33.99	1,075 (58.90)	750 (41.10)
Higher	401	4.98	5.35	153 (59.77)	103 (40.23)
Husband educational level						,
No education	1,876	23.28	26.17	943 (80.32)	231 (19.68)
Primary school	2,590	32.13	31.31	1,094 (68.81)	496 (31.19)
Secondary school	2,899	35.97	33.67	1,128 (61.20)	715 (38.80)
Higher	695	8.62	8.85	244 (60.10)	162 (39.90)
Women’s occupation						,
Not working	2,153	26.71	25.54	1,011 (71.05)	412 (28.95)
Clerical	116	1.44	1.42	37 (61.67)	23 (38.33)
Sales	1,638	20.32	20.05	570 (61.69)	354 (38.31)
Agricultural self-employed	2,865	35.55	36.45	1,288 (72.00)	501 (28.00)
Services	791	9.81	9.8	279 (59.11)	193 (40.89)
Skilled manual	385	4.78	4.99	181 (64.41)	100 (35.59)
Unskilled manual	112	1.39	1.75	43 (67.19)	21 (32.81)
Husband occupation			.			,
Not working	347	4.31	3.73	58 (59.18)	40 (40.82)
Professional/technical/managerial	318	3.95	3.77	183 (61.41)	115 (38.59)
Clerical	147	1.82	1.64	912 (66.09)	468 (33.91)
Sales	1,324	16.43	15.95	1,534 (74.90)	514 (25.10)
Agricultural self employed	3,229	40.06	41.1	613 (59.28)	421 (40.72)
Service	913	11.33	11.02	109 (70.32)	46 (29.68)
Skilled manual	1,512	18.76	19.18	58 (59.18)	40 (40.82)
Unskilled manual	270	3.35	3.61	183 (61.41)	115 (38.59)
Economic status			.			,
Poorest	1,415	17.56	21.25	831 (83.69)	162 (16.31)
Poorer	1,732	21.49	20.53	810 (70.74)	335 (29.26)
Middle	1,893	23.49	19.91	747 (66.11)	383 (33.89)
Richer	1,593	19.76	19.23	577 (59.36)	395 (40.64)
Richest	1,427	17.70	19.08	444 (57.44)	329 (42.56)
Religion						,
Catholic	2,805	34.80	34.85	1,084 (63.88)	613 (36.12)
Protestant	2,138	26.53	23.89	820 (63.13)	479 (36.87)
Other Christians	579	7.18	6.38	254 (66.32)	129 (33.68)
Muslim	2,227	27.63	30.26	1,101 (75.77)	352 (24.23)
Other	311	3.86	4.62	150 (82.87)	31 (17.13)
Media exposure						,
No	3,374	41.86	44.16	1,681 (77.36)	492 (22.64)
Yes	4,686	58.14	55.84	1,728 (60.85)	1,112 (39.15)
Decision-making						,
No	3,961	49.14	52.31	1,938 (72.07)	751 (27.93)
Yes	4,099	50.86	47.69	1,471 (63.30)	853 (36.70)
Sex of HH head						,
Male	6,925	85.92	86.79	2,995 (68.91)	1,351 (31.09)
Female	1,135	14.08	13.21	414 (62.07)	253 (37.93)
Skilled ANC						,
No	695	13.86	14.02
Yes	4,318	86.14	85.98
Distance to HF						,
Big problem	3,211	43.03	42.41	1,622 (73.59)	582 (26.41)
Not a big problem	4,252	56.97	57.59	1,787 (63.62)	1,022 (36.38)
Place of residence						,
Urban	3,774	46.82	47.46	1,394 (62.57)	834 (37.43)
Rural	4,286	53.18	52.54	2,015 (72.35)	770 (27.65)
Region						,
Adamawa	690	8.56	5.29	330 (76.74)	100 (23.26)
Centre (without Yaoun)	826	10.25	9.53	338 (64.88)	183 (35.12)
Douala	555	6.89	10.11	176 (59.26)	121 (40.74)
East	718	8.91	6.26	301 (63.91)	170 (36.09)
Far-North	1,051	13.04	18.26	555 (75.20)	183 (24.80)
Littoral (without Dou)	495	6.14	3.45	191 (67.97)	90 (32.03)
North	1,017	12.62	15.64	621 (90.92)	62 (9.08)
North-West	383	4.75	5.75	132 (53.23)	116 (46.77)
West	788	9.78	10.68	310 (63.66)	177 (36.34)
South	778	9.65	4.69	196 (45.90)	231 (54.10)
South-West	164	2.03	1.58	49 (55.68)	39 (44.32)
Yaounde	595	7.38	8.76	210 (61.40)	132 (38.60)
Community literacy level			.			,
Low	3,296	40.89	44.74	1,724 (78.12)	483 (21.88)
Medium	2,532	31.41	27.2	944 (62.89)	557 (37.11)
High	2,232	27.69	28.06	741 (56.78)	564 (43.22)
Community socioeconomic level						,
Low	3,973	49.29	50.03	1,942 (74.58)	662 (25.42)
Moderate	1,766	21.91	19.01	686 (63.34)	397 (36.66)
High	2,321	28.80	30.96	781 (58.90)	545 (41.10)