Geohelminth Infections and Nutritional Status of Preschool Aged Children in a Periurban Settlement of Ogun State

Table 11

Logistic regression models for helminth infection and Ascaris infection.

	Helminth infection			Ascaris infection
	Exp()	S.E	value	Exp()	S.E	value
Intercept model	0.76	0.21	0.19	0.64	0.21	0.03
Logistic model
Age group
0–60 months	Reference	—	—	Reference	—	—
≥60 months	3.35	0.51	0.02	4.10	0.54	0.01
Playing on soil with friends
No				Reference	—	—
Yes				9.83E7	1.19E4	0.99
Wearing of sandals when playing
No	Reference	—	—	Reference	—	—
Yes	0.09	1.07	0.02	0.32	1.13	0.31
Washing of hand before eating
No				Reference	—	—
Water				4.66	1.11	0.16
Water + soap				0.00	2.70E4	0.99

Cox and Snell = 0.159 (Ascaris and hookworm) and 0.243 (Ascaris)
⁢ value < 0.05 shows significant predictive factor.