Agony resulting from cultural practices of canine bud extraction among children under five years in selected slums of Makindye: a cross sectional study

Table 2 Multivariate analysis of relationship between CBE and knowledge and perception factors using stepwise selection

Characteristic	Total N = 298	%	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	P-value	Adjusted OR (CI)^b	P-value
CBE Information source
Friend	50	16.8	1
Neighbor	71	23.8	1.3 (0.4–3.8)	0.654
Health worker	10	3.4	1.5 (0.2–13.4)	0.735
Traditional healer	22	7.4	1.6 (0.3–8.5)	0.565
Spouse	24	8.1	1.1 (0.3–4.9)	0.860
Relative	121	40.6	2.3 (0.9–6.7)	0.128
Know side effects
No	136	45.6	1
Yes	162	54.4	0.4 (0.2–1.0)	0.062
CBE leads to poor dentition
Disagree	45	15.1	1
Agree	170	57.1	0.6 (0.2–2.3)	0.497
Don’t know	83	27.8	0.6 (0.2–2.3)	0.443
CBE treats fever
Disagree	11	3.7	1
Agree	275	92.3	17.1 (4.7–61.6)	< 0.001^a
Don’t know	12	4.0	1.7 (0.3–8.8)	0.538
CBE treats diarrhea
Disagree	11	3.7	1		1
Agree	281	94.3	7.5 (2.0–27.6)	0.003^a	1.2 (0.1–19.6)	0.875
Don’t know	6	2.0	0.1 (0.0–1.4)	0.086	0.02 (0.0–1.0)	0.051
CBE treats malaria
Disagree	15	5.0	1	1	1
Agree	186	62.4	4.8 (1.4–17.3)	0.015^a	2.8 (0.2–44.5)	0.461
Don’t know	97	32.6	2.6 (0.7–9.4)	0.152	2.7 (0.2–48.3)	0.497
CBE treats cough
Disagree	49	16.4	1		1
Agree	111	37.3	2.4 (0.7–8.7)	0.181	1.3 (0.3–6.5)	0.766
Don’t know	138	46.3	0.7 (0.3–2.0)	0.523	0.5 (0.1–2.1)	0.347
CBE treats vomiting
Disagree	14	4.7	1		1
Agree	195	65.4	3.8 (0.9–15.4)	0.060	3.7 (0.5–27.1)	0.192
Don’t know	89	29.9	1.6 (0.4–6.5)	0.515	2.6 (0.4–18.4)	0.325
Consider CBE bad
No	181	60.7	1		1
Yes	117	39.3	0.1 (0.1–0.4)	< 0.001^a	0.1 (0.0–0.4)	< 0.001^a
No of children
One	129	43.3	1		1
Two or more	169	56.7	2.3 (1.1–5.1)	0.036^a	2.8 (1.1–7.2)	0.038^a

^aStatistically significant at p = 0.05, ^bAdjusted for diarrhea treats CBE, malaria treats CBE, vomiting treats CBE, consider CBE bad and number of children

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