Deformities due to Leprosy in Children under Fifteen Years Old as an Indicator of Quality of the Leprosy Control Programme in Brazilian Municipalities

Table 3

Prevalence ratio and confidence intervals of factors associated with physical deformity of notified leprosy cases in children under 15 years old in Almenara, Araçuaí, and Diamantina between 1998 and 2010.

	Degree of physical deformity at diagnosis
Variable	Yes		No		PR	𝑃 value	CI 95%
	𝑛	%	𝑛	%
Gender
Female	6	8,3	66	91,7	1
Male	15	22,1	53	77,9	2,65	0,032	1,09–6,45
Operational classification*
Paucibacillary	2	2,4	83	97,6	1
Multibacillary	19	34,5	36	65,5	14,68	<0,001	3,54–60,87
Detection mode
Active	6	19,4	25	80,6	1
Passive	15	14,2	91	85,8	0,73	0,476	0,31–1,73

PR: prevalence ratio; 𝑃 value: Poisson regression; CI: confidence intervals.
*World Health Organization classification according to number of skin lesions: paucibacillary (up to 05 lesions) and multibacillary (more than 05 lesions).