Undernutrition and Associated Factors among Adolescent Girls in Damot Sore District, Southern Ethiopia

Table 3

Factors associated with thinness during bivariable and multivariable analysis among adolescent girls in Damot Sore Woreda, Southern Ethiopia, 2017.

Variables	Thinness		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Yes (N, %)	No (N, %)
Girls’ age
10–14 years	78 (17.9)	357 (82.1)	1	1
15–19 years	62 (21.8)	222 (78.2)	1.28 (0.88–1.86)	1.08 (0.56–2.07)
Family size
≤5	64 (22.7)	218 (77.3)	1.39 (0.96–2.02)	1.38 (0.94–2.06)
>5	76 (17.4)	361 (82.6)	1	1
Father’s education
No formal education	55 (28.8)	136 (71.2)	1	1
Primary education	47 (16.7)	235 (83.3)	0.49 (0.32–0.77)	0.48 (0.31–0.77)
Secondary education	27 (14.4)	160 (85.6)	0.42 (0.25–0.69)	0.45 (0.26–0.78)
More than secondary	11 (18.6)	48 (81.4)	0.57 (0.27–1.17)	0.73 (0.33–1.60)
Mother’s education
No formal education	73 (25.2)	217 (74.8)	1	1
Primary education	46 (14.8)	265 (85.2)	0.52 (0.34–0.78)	0.56 (0.37–0.87)
Secondary education	13 (15.7)	70 (84.3)	0.55 (0.29–1.06)	0.58 (0.29–1.18)
More than secondary	8 (22.9)	27 (77.1)	0.88 (0.38–2.03)	0.85 (0.35–2.05)
Number of meals per day
Three times	84 (18.7)	366 (81.3)	1	1
≥four times	25 (14.3)	150 (85.7)	0.73 (0.45–1.18)	0.72 (0.43–1.19)
≤two times	31 (33.0)	63 (67.0)	2.14 (1.31–3.50)	1.87 (1.12–3.13)
Soap using when washing hands
≤two times	2 (14.3)	12 (85.7)	1.00 (0.21–4.69)	0.78 (0.15–3.99)
Three times	108 (21.8)	387 (78.2)	1.67 (1.07–2.60)	1.52 (0.95–2.41)
≥four times	30 (14.3)	180 (85.7)	1	1
Started menarche
No	63 (16.7)	314 (83.3)	1	1
Yes	77 (22.5)	265 (77.5)	1.45 (0.99–2.09)	1.46 (0.77–2.77)
Wealth index
Rich	46 (17.7)	214 (82.3)	1	1
Medium	37 (17.1)	179 (82.9)	0.96 (0.59–1.55)	0.92 (0.56–1.52)
Poor	57 (23.5)	186 (76.5)	1.43 (0.92–2.20)	1.25 (0.79–1.98)

; . COR = crude odds ratio and AOR = adjusted odds ratio.