Determinants of Delay in Seeking Malaria Treatment for Under-Five Children at Gambella Town, Southwest Ethiopia: A Case-Control Study

Table 3

Determinants for the delay in seeking malaria treatment for under-five children at Gambella town, March 2017.

Variables	Delay status in malaria treatment		Crude OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)
	Cases number	Controls number
Mothers occupation
Housewife	99	70	2.23 (1.38, 3.62)	2.50 (1.47, 4.22)
Employee	45	71	1	1
Merchant	9	12	1.18 (0.46, 3.03)	1.84 (0.66, 5.16)
History of child death
Yes	15	34	1	1
No	138	119	2.63 (1.36, 5.06)	3.70 (1.79, 7.64)
Khat chewing
Yes	29	11	3.02 (1.45, 6.29)	3.50 (1.57, 7.68)
No	124	142	1	1
Ethnic group
Agnuha	41	38	1	1
Nuer	38	22	1.60 (0.81, 3.18)	1.70 (0.81, 3.55)
Oromo	30	28	0.99 (0.50, 1.96)	1.06 (0.52, 2.19)
Amhara	19	25	0.70 (0.34, 1.48)	0.53 (0.25, 1.09)
Others	25	40	0.58 (0.30, 1.13)	0.56 (0.25, 1.26)

1, reference group. value <0.05 in multivariable analysis.