Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study
Karin Källander, Helena Hildenwall, Peter Waiswa, Edward Galiwango, Stefan Peterson, George Pariyo
Volume 86, Number 5, May 2008, 332-338
Table 3. Potential risk factors for delaying > 2 days from symptom recognition to reaching an outside care provider for fatal pneumonia, n = 44
| Potential risk factors | No. of childrena |
Odds ratiob | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–11 | 8 (35) | 10 (48) | 0.6 (0.2–2.0) | 0.39 | |
| 12–59 | 15 (65) | 11 (52) | 1 | – | |
| Boys | 11 (48) | 11 (52) | 0.8 (0.3–2.7) | 0.76 | |
| Girls | 12 (52) | 10 (48) | 1 | – | |
| Malaria | 9 (39) | 5 (24) | 0.5 (0.1–1.8) | 0.28 | |
| AIDS/malnutrition | 8 (35) | 8 (38) | 1.2 (0.3–3.9) | 0.82 | |
| Diarrhoeal disease | 1 (4) | 2 (10) | 2.3 (0.2–27) | 0.51 | |
| Anaemia | 3 (13) | 8 (38) | 4.1 (0.9–18) | 0.06c | |
| Hospital | 7 (30) | 9 (43) | 1.7 (0.5–5.9) | 0.39 | |
| Health centre | 5 (22) | 4 (19) | 0.8 (0.2–3.7) | 0.83 | |
| Private clinic | 7 (30) | 2 (10) | 0.2 (0–1.3) | 0.10c | |
| Antimalarial | 11 (48) | 12 (63) | 1.9 (0.5–6.5) | 0.32 | |
| Antibiotic | 3 (13) | 9 (47) | 6 (1.3–27) | 0.02c | |
| Antipyretic | 11 (48) | 12 (63) | 0.9 (0.3–3.5) | 0.93 | |
| < 1 hour walking | 10 (43) | 6 (29) | 1.9 (0.6–6.7) | 0.30 | |
| ≥ 1 hour walking | 13 (57) | 15 (71) | 1 | – | |
a Values in parentheses are percentages.b Values in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals.c Variables where P < 0.25 qualified for the multiple logistic regression.