The Role of Community Participation in Planning and Executing Malaria Interventions: Experience from Implementation of Biolarviciding for Malaria Vector Control in Southern Tanzania

Table 6

Logistic regression for predictors of community participation.

Variable	COR	95% confidence interval	value	AOR	95% confidence interval	value
Councils
Lindi MC	Ref			Ref
Nachingwea DC	0.50	0.26-0.99	0.046	0.417	0.20-0.87	0.002
Mtwara Mc	0.10	034-0.30	≤0.001	0.07	0.20-0.22	≤0.001
Nanyamba TC	0.24	0.11-0.54	0.001	0.22	0.09-0.52	0.001
Marital status
Married	Ref			Ref
Unmarried	0.569	0.072-0.644	0.054	0.35	0.18-0.69	0.02
Education level
No formal education	Ref
Primary education	9.111	1.217-8.210	0.997
Secondary and beyond	6.387	0.828-9.241	0.998
Occupation	Ref
Peasant	1.409	0.499-3.975	0.517
Formal employed	0.995	0.540-1.835	0.988
Others
Awareness	Ref			Ref
No	2.47	1.33-4.58	0.004	1.68	0.78-3.62	0.185
Yes
Willingness to participate	Ref			Ref
Low	3.53	1.367-9.116	0.009	3.15	1.14-8.71	0.027
High
Involvement	Ref			Ref
No	5.128	2.668-9.856	≤0.001	6.07	2.69-13.71	≤0.001
Yes

Note: Ref: reference category; COR: crude odd ratio; AOR: adjusted odd ratio.