Prevalence and risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth infection in mothers and their infants in Butajira, Ethiopia: a population based study

Table 4 Multivariate analysis of independent risk factors for any soil-transmitted helminth infection in mothers and their children in the Butajira birth cohort, Ethiopia, 2007

Outcome variable	Risk factor	Adjusted OR	95% CI	P-value
Maternal infection	Soap use			0.055
	Daily	1		Trend = 0.018
	At least once a week	1.40	1.04, 1.88
	Less frequent than once a week	1.66	0.92, 2.99
	Urban residence*	0.45	0.28, 0.73	0.001
	Domestic animals living together	0.73	0.53, 1.01	0.055
	Age of the mother*			0.964
	15-24	1		Trend = 0.789
	25-34	0.97	0.72, 1.29
	35-44	0.95	0.63, 1.44
Child infection	Water source			0.002
	Inside pipe	1
	Outside pipe	0.21	0.09, 0.51
	Well/stream/rainwater	0.20	0.56, 0.69
	River	0.09	0.02, 0.38
	Urban residence*	1.03	0.43, 2.45	0.954
	Male gender*	0.67	0.36, 1.26	0.216

* Place of residence included as a priori confounder, and additionally age of the mother in the mother and gender in the child model

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