Clinical malaria incidence and health seeking pattern in geographically heterogeneous landscape of western Kenya

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 Predictive factors associated with clinical malaria incidences

Risk factors	Category	Coefficient	Odd ratio (95% CI)¹	p-value
Topographical zones	Lakeshore	0.698	2.01 (1.63, 2.49)	< 0.0001
	Hillside	0.386	1.47 (1.18, 1.84)	< 0.0001
	Highland plateau		1
Gender	Female	− 0.182	0.83 (0.70, 0.99)	0.042
Gender	Male		1
Age group	< 5 years	0.683	1.98 (1.54, 2.54)	< 0.0001
	5–14 years	0.695	2.00 (1.66, 2.43)	< 0.0001
	≥ 15 years		1
Temperature	< 37.5 °C	− 1.423	0.27 (0.21, 0.34)	< 0.0001
Temperature	≥ 37.5 °C		1
Seasonality	Wet	− 0.07	0.93 (0.79–1.11)	0.427
Seasonality	Dry		1
Travel history	No	− 0.103	1.10 (0.69, 1.74)	0.693
Travel history	Yes		1
Bed net usage	No net	0.087	0.78 (0.57, 1.07)	0.121
Bed net usage	Use net		1

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