Research Article
Determinants of Ownership and Utilization of Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets for Malaria Control in Eastern Ethiopia
Table 5
Final logistic regression model for household’s ITNs use (with estimated odds ratios) in Gursum district, Ethiopia, 2008.
| | Variables | ITN Utilization status |
Crude OR (95% CI) | value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | value | | Yes (%) | No (%) |
| | Ever heard about ITN in the last 6 months | | | | | | | | Yes | 28 (63.6) | 49 (31.0) | 3.89 (1.93–7.84) | 0.000 | 3.25 (1.50–7.06) | 0.003 | | No | 16 (36.4) | 109 (69.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 | | Family size | | | | | | | | 4 | 25 (55.6) | 49 (29.9) | 2.93 (1.49–5.77) | 0.002 | 2.32 (1.06–5.05) | 0.034 | | 4 | 20 (44.4) | 115 (70.1) | 1.00 | 1.00 | | Occupation | | | | | | | | Farmer | 7 (15.6) | 73 (44.5) | 0.11 (0.03–0.37) | | 0.14 (0.04–0.50) | | | Student | 9 (20.0) | 10 (6.1) | 1.01 (0.27–3.75) | | 0.75 (0.18–3.08) | | | Housewife | 16 (35.6) | 69 (42.1) | 0.26 (0.09–0.78) | 0.000 | 0.26 (0.08–0.82) | 0.006 | | Government employee | 5 (11.1) | 3 (1.8) | 1.87 (0.34–10.46) | | 0.93 (0.15–5.82) | | | Merchant | 8 (17.8) | 9 (5.5) | 1.00 | | 1.00 | |
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