Type of disability | Unadjusted | Adjusted | ||||||
Sibling controls vs SAM survivors OR (95% CI) | P value | Community controls vs SAM survivors OR (95% CI) | P value | Sibling controls vs SAM survivors OR (95% CI) | P value | Community controls vs SAM survivors OR (95% CI) | P value | |
Any physical difficulty (question 1–4) | 0.49 (0.31 to 0.76) | 0.002 | 0.70 (0.45 to 1.09) | 0.11 | 0.66 (0.39 to 1.10) | 0.11 | 0.89 (0.53 to 1.52) | 0.68 |
Any learning/behaviour difficulty (5–14) | 0.56 (0.39 to 0.79) | 0.001 | 1.27 (0.85 to 1.91) | 0.24 | 0.62 (0.41 to 0.93) | 0.02 | 1.33 (0.85 to 2.11) | 0.22 |
Any difficulty | 0.51 (0.36 to 0.74) | <0.001 | 1.38 (0.90 to 2.10) | 0.14 | 0.59 (0.36 to 0.89) | 0.01 | 1.48 (0.92 to 2.39) | 0.11 |
‘A lot’ of physical difficulty | 0.34 (0.15 to 0.79) | 0.01 | 0.17 (0.05 to 0.57) | 0.004 | 0.30 (0.11 to 0.85) | 0.02 | 0.23 (0.06 0.86) | 0.03 |
‘A lot’ of learning/behaviour difficulty | 0.43 (0.28 to 0.66) | <0.001 | 0.93 (0.62 to 1.38) | 0.71 | 0.50 (0.31 to 0.80) | 0.004 | 1.08 (0.68 to 1.72) | 0.73 |
‘A lot’ of any difficulty | 0.43 (0.28 to 0.66) | <0.001 | 0.89 (0.60 to 1.31) | 0.54 | 0.51 (0.32 to 0.81) | 0.004 | 1.07 (0.68 to 1.69) | 0.77 |
Logistic regression, both unadjusted and adjusted for age, sex and HIV status. P values <0.05 are statistically significant (in bold).
SAM, severe acute malnutrition.