Nutritional Status of School Going Adolescent Girls in Awash Town, Afar Region, Ethiopia

Table 3

Multivariable binary logistic regression analysis for determinants of stunting among school going adolescent girls of Awash town, 2018 (n = 340).

Variables	Stunting		COR (95%)	AOR (95% CI)
	Yes (%)	No (%)
Age
10–14	37 (47.4)	98(37.4)	1.51(1.12–5.43)	1.4(1.04–4.28)
15–19	41 (52.6)	164 (62.6)	1
Family size
< = 3 persons	7 (9.0)	35 (13.4)	1
4–5 persons	18 (23.1)	76 (29.0)	1.18(.45–3.09)	1.31(0.48–3.57)
>5 persons	53(67.9)	151(57.6)	1.75(.74–4.19)	1.87(0.75–4.63)
Availability of phone
Yes	63 (80.8)	240 (91.6)	1	.
No	15 (19.2)	22 (8.4)	2.56 (1.27–5.29)	3.3(1.55–7.02)
DDS
Good	29(37.2)	144(55)	1	1
Poor	49(62.8)	118(45)	2.06(1.23, 5.64)	2.2(1.4, 4.54)
Fruits and vegetables intake
Yes	39 (50.0%)	90 (34.4%)	1.91 (1.15–3.19)	1.72 (0.14–4.25)
No	39 (50.0%)	172 (65.6%)	1

COR  crude odds ratio, AOR  adjusted odds ratio, CI  confidence interval, significant at .