A longitudinal study on anaemia in children with Plasmodium falciparuminfection in the Mount Cameroon region: prevalence, risk factors and perceptions by caregivers

Table 4 An integrated model identifying factors associated with anaemia

Variables	β value	P value	Correlations
			Partial
Use of bednets	−0.093	0.298	−0.097
Caretaker management of malaria	−0.093	0.228	−0.112
Egg per gram of feaces	−0.019	0.789	−0.025
Temperature	−0.076	0.349	−0.087
Platelet/L	−0.025	0.744	−0.031
WBC × 10 ⁹/L	−0.054	0.485	−0.065
Length of fever (days)	0.037	0.651	0.042
Parasitaemia density	0.047	0.549	0.056
Transferrin /mg/dl)	0.231	0.002^b	0.283^b
Ferritin /ng/ml)	0.385	0.0001^c	0.432^c
Iron (ug/dl)	0.089	0.238	0.110
Gametocytaemia	−0.056	0.437	−0.073
Splenomegaly	0.203	0.018^a	0.218^a
WAZ (under weight)	−0.004	0.967	−0.004
HAZ (stunting)	−0.052	0.541	−0.057
WHZ (wasting)	0.189	0.042^a	0.189^a
Age	−0.020	0.823	−0.021
Sex	0.168	0.025^a	0.207^a
R square	0.497
Adjusted R square	0.388

^a significant at P< 0.05 level, ^b Significant at P < 0.01 level, ^c significant atP < 0.001 level.

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