Predictors of malaria rapid diagnostic test positivity in a high burden area of Paletwa Township, Chin State in Western Myanmar

Table 3 Summary statistics for potential predictors of malaria test positivity among study participants (n = 1045) from four study villages in Paletwa Township, Chin State, Myanmar (January–December 2018)

Description	Malaria infection				P-value
	Positive		Negative
	n	(%)	n	(%)
Age (years)
< 5	63	34.2	121	65.8	0.780
5–14	77	31.0	171	69.0
15–24	69	30.1	160	69.9
≥ 25	116	30.2	268	69.8
Sex
Male	185	33.2	373	66.8	0.273
Female	140	28.7	347	71.3	0.273
Occupation**
Unemployed	183	33.0	371	67.0	0.519
Forest related workers	133	28.7	331	71.3
Non-forest related workers	9	33.3	18	66.7
Education level
≤ Primary education	249	29.4	597	70.6	0.293
> Primary education	76	38.2	123	61.8	0.293
Type of household
Hut	282	28.9	695	71.1	< 0.001*
Others	43	63.2	25	36.8	< 0.001*
Having farm animals (cattle/pigs)
Yes	287	29.1	700	70.9	< 0.001*
No	38	65.5	20	34.5	< 0.001*
Type of toilet
Non-septic	266	27.9	687	72.1	< 0.001*
Septic	59	64.1	33	35.9	< 0.001*
Having fever
Yes	261	34.5	495	65.5	0.005*
No	64	22.1	225	77.9
Having episode of malaria in last year
Yes	40	61.5	25	38.5	< 0.001*
No	285	29.1	695	70.9
Traveling to malaria endemic area of outside the village
Yes	19	70.4	8	29.6	0.001*
No	306	30.1	712	69.9
Use of bed nets
Yes	154	21.8	554	78.2	< 0.001*
No	171	50.7	166	49.3

Degree of freedom for Chi-square test = 1, **Fisher exact test, *P < 0.005, using the Bonferroni correction for multiple tests

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