Knowledge, Practice, and Associated Factors of Home-Based Management of Diarrhea among Caregivers of Children Attending Under-Five Clinic in Fagita Lekoma District, Awi Zone, Amhara Regional State, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016

Table 2

Factors associated with knowledge in home management of diarrhea among caregivers attending under-five clinic in Fagita Lekoma district, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016.

Variable	Level of knowledge		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Adequate	Inadequate
Age
15–24	53 (57%)	40 (43%)	4.711 (2.022, 10.976)	1.253 (0.364, 4.319)
25–35	115 (64.2%)	64 (35.8%)	6.389 (2.870, 14.221)	2.740 (1.000, 7.502)
36–45	31 (54.4%)	26 (45.6%)	4.239 (1.715, 10.476)	1.950 (0.678, 5.606)
>45	9 (22%)	32 (78%)	1.00	1.00
Marital status
Married	190 (59.6%)	129 (40.4%)	1.00	1.00
Single	6 (31.6%)	13 (68.4%)	0.313 (0.116, 0.846)	0.548 (0.104, 2.893)
Widowed	2 (20%)	8 (80%)	0.170 (0.035, 0.812)	0.498 (0.054, 4.580)
Divorced	10 (45.5%)	12 (54.5%)	0.566 (0.237, 1.348)	0.685 (0.169, 2.768)
Educational status
Illiterate	87 (40.1%)	130 (59.9%)	1.00	1.00
Primary (1–8)	32 (57.1%)	24 (42.9%)	1.992 (1.099, 3.612)	5.384 (2.008, 14.435
Secondary and above	89 (91.6%)	8 (8.4%)	16.624 (7.676, 36)	11.769 (3.527, 39.275
Occupational status
Housewife	123 (50.8%)	119 (49.2%)	1.00	1.00
Government	61 (98.4%)	1 (1.6%)	59.016 (8.051, 432.587)	5.037 (0.516, 49.207)
Private employee	5 (41.7%)	7 (58.3%)	0.691 (0.213, 2.238)	0.245 (0.036, 1.680)
Daily laborer	10 (28.6%)	25 (71.4%)	0.387 (0.178, 0.840)	0.208 (0.054, 0.810
Merchant	9 (64.3%)	5 (35.7%)	1.741 (0.567, 5.347)	0.441 (0.113, 1.728)
Farmer	2 (40%)	3 (60%)	0.644 (0.243, 3.952)	0.379 (0.186, 1.962)
Number of children
1-2	149 (63.1%)	87 (36.9%)	1.00	1.00
3-4	55 (46.6%)	63 (53.4%)	0.510 (0.326, 0.798)	1.141 (0.560, 2.322)
>4	4 (25%)	12 (75%)	0.195 (0.061, 0.622)	0.609 (0.138, 2.688)
Information about diarrhea
No information	6 (12.8%)	41 (87.2%)	0.088 (0.036, 0.213)	0.139 (0.054, 0.354
Have information	202 (62.5%)	121 (37.5%)	1.00	1.00

NB. (employee), enter method in logistic regression model was used to select the variable; the model was adequate with value 0.830 (Hosmer and Lemeshow test for goodness of fit); indicates significantly associated variables ( value <0.05).