Nutritional Status of Children and Its Associated Factors in Selected Earthquake-Affected VDCs of Gorkha District, Nepal

Table 7

Factors associated with wasting in using bivariate and multivariate analyses.

Characteristics	Wasting status (%)		value	COR^a 95% CI	AOR^b 95% CI
	Wasted	Normal
Sex
Male	8 (4.0)	190 (96.0)	0.280	2.30 (0.68-7.74)	—
Female	4 (1.8)	218 (98.2)		1
Family type
Joint/extended	7 (5.6)	117 (94.4)	0.026	3.48 (1.08-11.19)	2.89 (0.87-9.58)
Nuclear	5 (1.7)	291 (98.3)		1	1
Family size
>5 person	8 (4.0)	192 (96.0)	0.295	2.25 (0.67-7.59)	—
≤5 person	4 (1.8)	216 (98.2)		1
Occupation of child’s father
Agriculture	3 (1.6)	184 (98.4)	0.167	0.41 (0.11-1.52)	—
Other than agriculture	9 (3.9)	224 (96.1)		1
Source of drinking water
Nonimproved source	3 (16.7)	15 (83.3)	0.004	8.73 (2.14-35.58)	6.75 (1.59-28.62)
Improved source	9 (2.2)	393 (97.8)		1

Significant at . 1: reference category; ^acrude odds ratio, ^badjusted odds ratio.