Assessing the external validity of a randomized controlled trial of anthelminthics in mothers and their children in Entebbe, Uganda

Table 2 Characteristics showing differences between EMaBS children and community survey children after multivariable analysis

Sociodemographic variables	Adjusted OR (95% CI)¹	P ¹
Maternal tribe
Muganda	1	0.03
Munyankole/Mutoro/Munyarwanda	0.31 (0.14, 0.71)
Musoga	0.44 (0.14, 1.32)
Other	0.76 (0.36, 1.61)
Maternal education
None	5.89 (2.28, 15.17)	<0.001
Primary	1
Secondary	2.07 (1.21, 3.55)
Tertiary	0.97 (0.31, 3.03)
Paternal education
None/primary	1	<0.001
Secondary	0.64 (0.33, 1.23)
Tertiary	0.18 (0.08, 0.40)
Maternal employment
Unemployed	1
Employed	0.21 (0.12, 0.37)	<0.001
Crowding
<=3 people/room	1
>3 people/room	0.54 (0.30, 0.97)	0.04
Walls
Bricks	1
Mud/metal	0.28 (0.11, 0.73)	0.01
Barefoot exposure
Never/rarely	1
Often	17.91 (6.82, 47.07)	<0.001
Child sleeps under net
Always	1	0.02
Sometimes	2.09 (0.88, 4.98)
Never	3.66 (1.42, 9.47)
Household nets treated?
None	1
Some/all	0.07 (0.03, 0.17)	<0.001
Measles
No	1
Yes	0.23 (0.07, 0.80)	0.02

¹Odds ratios use the trial population as the reference group and are adjusted for clustering. Results for tribe, maternal education and paternal education adjusted for each other; results for maternal employment adjusted for tribe and parental education; results for crowding and walls adjusted for tribe, education, employment and each other; results for barefoot exposure, child bed-net usage and household net treatment adjusted for all other factors except measles; results for measles adjusted for all other factors.

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