Enteroparasitism in Hard-to-Reach Community Dwellers: A Cross-Sectional Study in Ga West Municipality in Ghana

Table 2

Logistic regression analysis of significant associations of enteroparasitism with study variables.

Study variables		S.E.	Wald	df	Sig.	Exp ()
Resident community
Opah	0.124	0.463	0.071	1	0.789	1.132
Otuaplem	-0.025	0.515	0.002	1	0.961	0.975
Dedeman	0.810	0.484	2.798	1	0.094	2.247
Onyansana	1.001	0.427	5.506	1	0.019	2.722
Manchie (reference)
Age range (years)
6–10	-2.067	4.537	0.208	1	0.649	0.127
11–15	-2.973	1.654	3.228	1	0.072	0.051
16–20	3.375	1.223	7.615	1	0.006	29.232
21–25	0.972	1.235	0.619	1	0.431	2.643
26–30	-0.690	1.262	0.299	1	0.584	0.501
31–35	-1.390	1.718	0.655	1	0.418	0.249
36–40	-0.920	1.468	0.393	1	0.531	0.398
>40 (reference)
Marital status
Single	5.933	1.606	13.644	1	<0.001	377.362
Married	0.380	1.061	0.128	1	0.721	1.462
Widowed	0.980	1.227	0.638	1	0.424	2.665
Divorced (reference)
Tribe
Akan	-2.964	1.213	5.969	1	0.015	0.052
Ga	-2.169	1.281	2.865	1	0.090	0.114
Ewe	-2.175	1.113	3.820	1	0.051	0.114
Dagomba	-1.306	1.256	1.081	1	0.298	0.271
Fulani	-1.914	1.139	2.822	1	0.093	0.147
Others (reference)
Religion
Christianity	-1.006	0.464	4.709	1	0.030	0.366
Islamic	1.258	0.694	3.285	1	0.070	3.519
Traditional	-1.680	0.985	2.911	1	0.088	0.186
Others (reference)
Average monthly income
0–500 (0–90)	-1.715	1.004	2.915	1	0.088	0.180
501–1000 (91–181)	0.118	0.428	0.075	1	0.784	1.125
1001–1500 (182–272)	-1.719	0.681	6.363	1	0.012	0.179
1501–2000 (273–363) (reference)
Highest education
None	-1.136	0.564	4.056	1	0.044	0.321
Primary	-0.311	0.692	0.202	1	0.653	0.733
Junior high	-0.459	0.809	0.321	1	0.571	0.632
Senior high	-0.732	0.534	1.878	1	0.171	0.481
Postsenior high (reference)
Type of farming
Crop	-2.474	1.226	4.069	1	0.044	0.084
Poultry	-1.611	0.910	3.138	1	0.076	0.200
Livestock	0.443	1.205	0.135	1	0.713	1.558
Not applicable (reference)

Significantly different variable.