Multilevel logistic regression analysis for child malnutrition and community, households and individual level factors (p<0.05)
| Factor | Null model | Stunting (<–2 SD) | Null model | Wasting (<–2 SD) | Null model | Underweight (<–2 SD) | ||||||||||||
| OR | (95% CI) | P value | OR | (95% CI) | P value | OR | (95% CI) | P value | OR | (95% CI) | P value | OR | (95% CI) | P value | OR | (95% CI) | P value | |
| Toilet facility | ||||||||||||||||||
| Improved | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Unimproved | 1.71 | (1.14 to 2.55) | 0.01 | 2.11 | (1.16 to 3.82) | 0.01 | ||||||||||||
| Drinking water source | ||||||||||||||||||
| Improved | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Unimproved | 1.97 | (1.19 to 3.29) | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||
| Maternal height | ||||||||||||||||||
| ≥155 cm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||
| 150–155 cm | 1.52 | (1.02 to 2.26) | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||
| <150 cm | 2.37 | (1.29 to 4.35) | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||
| Child’s age | ||||||||||||||||||
| 0–5 months | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6–23 months | 3.27 | (1.57 to 6.78) | <0.01 | 4.83 | (1.36 to 17.24) | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
| 24–59 months | 2.82 | (1.40 to 5.67) | <0.01 | 4.59 | (1.29 to 16.26) | 0.02 | ||||||||||||
| Birth order | ||||||||||||||||||
| First | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Second | 1.92 | (1.09 to 3.36) | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||
| Third | 6.77 | (2.00 to 22.82) | <0.01 | |||||||||||||||
| Random-effects variance | ||||||||||||||||||
| VA (MOR) | 1.59 | 1.55 | 1.04 | 1.40 | 1.27 | 1.34 | ||||||||||||
*Only significant factors with a p<0.05 are reported.
MOR, median odds ratio; VA, village assembly.