Overweight and Undernutrition in the Cases of School-Going Adolescents in Wolaita Sodo Town, Southern Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Study

Table 5

Factors associated with stunting of school adolescents, Wolaita Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia, May 2015.

Variable	Nutritional status		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Stunted	Normal
Original residence
Urban	22 (4.2%)	497 (95.8%)	1
Rural	12 (8.8%)	124 (91.2%)	2.19 (1.05–4.54)	2.619 (0.83–8.27)
Cattle in the same house
Yes	17 (9.1%)	169 (90.9%)	2.67 (1.33–5.36)	2.11 (0.86–5.20)
No	17 (3.6%)	452 (96.4%)	1
Source of drinking water
Safe source	29 (4.7%)	589 (95.3%)	1
Not safe source	5 (13.5%)	32 (86.5%)	3.17 (1.15–8.74)	2.03 (0.66–6.25)
Fathers’ occupation
Farmer	8 (7.5%)	99 (92.5%)	1.41 (0.59–3.35)	0.32 (0.09–1.23)
Merchant	3 (2.1%)	143 (97.9%)	0.36 (0.11–1.27)	0.25 (0.61–1.02)
Day laborer	5 (7.2%)	64 (92.8%)	1.36 (0.49–3.82)	0.98 (0.28–3.36)
Government/NGO employee	18 (5.4%)	315 (94.6%)	1
Mothers’ education
No formal education	6 (8.5%)	65 (91.55)	1.21 (0.42–3.47)	0.49 (0.10–2.40)
Primary education	14 (5.8%)	229 (94.2%)	0.801 (0.35–1.85)	0.53 (0.15–1.89)
Secondary education	4 (2.0%)	196 (98.0%)
College and university	10 (7.1%)	131 (92.9%)	1
Family size
≤5 members	17 (6.6%)	241 (93.4%)	0.63 (0.32–1.27)	2.03 (0.94–4.36)
>5 members	17 (4.3%)	380 (95.7%)	1
House ownership
Owned	31 (5.6%)	519 (94.4%)	1
Rent from private	1 (1.6%)	61 (98.4%)	0.27 (0.04–2.05)	1.80 (0.37–8.66)
Rent from government	2 (4.7%)	41 (95.3%)	0.82 (0.19–3.53)	0.31 (0.02–3.97)

COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; statistical significant variable at value < 0.01.