Determinants of Ownership and Utilization of Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets for Malaria Control in Eastern Ethiopia

Table 4

Final logistic regression model for household’s ownership of ITNs (with estimated odds ratios) in Gursum district, Ethiopia, 2008.

Variables	Ownership of ITN		Crude OR (95% CI)	𝑃 value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	𝑃 value
	Yes 𝑛 (%)	No 𝑛 (%)
Occupation
Farmer	80 (8.3)	24 (19.0)	4.71 (2.18–10.17)		5.11 (1.88–13.94)
Student	19 (9.1)	9 (7.1)	2.98 (1.09–8.16)	0.001	2.53 (0.71–8.96)	0.026
Housewife	85 (40.7)	64 (50.8)	1.87 (0.93–3.78)		2.10 (0.87–5.06)
Government employee	8 (3.8)	5 (4.0)	2.26 (0.63–8.11)		1.46 (0.27–7.91)
Merchant	17 (8.1)	24 (19.0)	1.00		1.00
Knowledge of the cause of malaria
Yes	179 (85.6)	77 (61.1)	3.80 (2.24–6.43)	0.000	2.64 (1.31–5.30)	0.007
No	30 (14.4)	49 (38.9)	1.00		1.00
Feeling family is at risk of getting malaria
Yes	111 (55.8)	84 (70.6)	0.53 (0.32–0.85)	0.009	0.33 (0.17–0.69)	0.001
No	88 (44.2)	35 (29.4)	1.00		1.00
Have you ever heard about ITN
Yes	199 (97.5)	106 (88.3)	5.26 (1.84–15.0)	0.002	7.56 (1.95–29.28)	0.003
No	5 (2.5)	14 (11.7)	1.00		1.00
Family size
Less than 3	38 (18.2)	56 (44.4)	0.20 (0.11–0.38)		0.23 (0.10–0.52)
Four	36 (17.2)	22 (17.5)	0.49 (0.24–0.99)	0.000	1.05 (0.41–2.68)	0.001
Five and six	58 (27.8)	25 (19.8)	0.69 (0.36–1.34)		0.81 (0.36–1.82)
Seven and above	77 (36.8)	23 (18.3)	1.00		1.00