Time to Recovery and Its Predictors among Children 6–59 Months Admitted with Severe Acute Malnutrition to East Amhara Hospitals, Northeast Ethiopia: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study
Table 3
Predictors of nutritional recovery time among children 6–59 months with SAM managed to East Amhara Public Hospitals, North East Ethiopia, 2019.
Variables
Categories
Recovered
Not recovered
CHR (95% CI)
AHR (95% CI)
Educational status of caretaker
Illiterate
122
37
1
1
Read/Write
76
29
1.38 (1.03, 1.85)
0.80 (0.56, 1.14)
Formal education
56
21
1.81 (1.31, 2.5)
1.13 (0.76, 1.67)
Food security status
Food secure
183
66
2.24 (0.99, 5.06)
2.10 (0.80, 5.51)
Mildly food insecure
3
1
3.89 (0.96, 15.7)
2.14 (0.39, 11.9)
Moderately food insecure
62
18
1.1 (0.47, 2.53)
1.49 (0.54, 4.09)
Severely food insecure
6
2
1
1
Still breastfeeding
Yes
208
72
1
1
No
46
15
0.78 (0.57, 1.08)
1.04 (0.70, 1.55)
Appetite test at admission
Passed
76
14
1
1
Failed
178
73
0.63 (0.48, 0.83)
0.82 (0.59, 1.15)
Pneumonia
Yes
87
30
0.69 (0.53, 0.89)
0.86 (0.61, 1.20)
No
167
57
1
1
Diarrhea
Yes
81
28
1.48 (1.13, 1.94)
1.40 (1.02, 1.90)
No
173
59
1
1
HIV
Yes
27
2
0.44 (0.29, 0.66)
0.73 (0.44, 1.22)
No
227
85
1
1
Dermatosis
Yes
16
5
0.69 (0.41, 1.15)
0.39 (0.15, 1.05)
No
238
82
1
1
Wealth status
Poor
96
41
1
1
Medium
85
26
1.14 (0.85, 1.53)
0.80 (0.56, 1.14)
Rich
73
20
1.32 (0.97, 1.79)
1.13 (0.76, 1.67)
TB
Yes
7
3
0.53 (0.25, 1.12)
0.78 (0.25, 2.45)
No
247
84
1
1
NG tube for feeding
Yes
31
25
0.42 (0.29, 0.62)
0.44 (0.27, 0.71)
No
223
62
1
1
Failure to enter PII on day 10
Yes
72
9
0.30 (0.22, 0.4)
0.19 (0.12, 0.29)
No
182
78
1
1
Average weight gain
<8 g/kg/d
73
53
0.62 (0.45, 0.85)
0.83 (0.57, 1.22)
>8 g/kg/d
181
34
1
1
Health facility
General hospital
145
53
1
1
Referral hospital
109
34
0.83 (0.64, 1.06)
0.52 (0.37, 0.73)
Significant at value of ≤0.05; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; TB: tuberculosis; PII: phase 2.
