A Comparative Study of Asymptomatic Malaria in a Forest Rural and Depleted Forest Urban Setting during a Low Malaria Transmission and COVID-19 Pandemic Period

Table 3

Multiple logistic regression models predicting Plasmodium RDT after adjusting for confounders (predictor variables).

Variable	Multivariate models
	Coef. (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	value
1) Community^a; Farm around the house^b	2.475 (1.425-3.524); 1.01 (-1.213-3.233)	11.877 (4.158-33.931); 2.746 (0.297-25.367)	<0.001; 0.373
2) Community^a; Farm around the house^b; Occupation^c	2.385 (1.313-3.458); 0.959 (-1.270-3.188); 0.268 (-0.515-1.05)	10.862 (3.718-31.739); 2.609 (0.281-24.234); 1.307 (0.598-2.858)	<0.001; 0.399; 0.502
3) Farm around the house^b; Occupation^c	2.804 (0.796-4.813); 0.768 (0.081-1.455)	16.516 (2.216-123.097); 2.156 (1.085-4.285)	0.006; 0.028

Coef.: Coefficient; OR: Odds Ratio; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; ^aRural is the reference category; ^bHaving farm around the house is the reference category; ^cOthers (sand miners, farmers, students, housewives, guards, jobless combined to form one category) is the reference category.