Table 6 Kaplan-Meier outputs; recovery time from severe acute malnutrition among children, Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia; October, 2012 to April, 2016
Characteristics | Number (%) | Median recovery time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Estimate | 95% CI | Log rank X2-value | P- value | ||||
Cough | Yes | 101(49.3) | 17.000 | 14.823 | 19.177 | 7.800 | .005 |
No | 107(54.6) | 15.000 | 13.324 | 16.676 | |||
HIV | Yes | 9(42.9) | 27.000 | 12.824 | 41.176 | 7.798 | .020 |
No | 90(58.1) | 17.000 | 14.097 | 19.903 | |||
Not documented | 109(48.4) | 16.000 | 14.552 | 17.448 | |||
TB | Yes | 19(50.0) | 26.000 | 18.096 | 33.904 | 18.971 | .000 |
No | 187(51.9) | 16.000 | 14.530 | 17.470 | |||
Not documented | 2(66.7) | 9.000 | . | . | |||
Anemia | Yes | 125(60.1) | 18.000 | 16.099 | 19.901 | 33.085 | .000 |
No | 83(39.9) | 14.000 | 12.157 | 15.843 | |||
Fever > 39 °C | Yes | 18(40.0) | 21.000 | 13.997 | 28.003 | 6.475 | .011 |
No | 190(53.4) | 16.000 | 14.263 | 17.737 | |||
Plumpy nut | Yes | 180(82.6) | 14.000 | 13.033 | 14.967 | 34.617 | .000 |
No | 28(15.3) | 28.000 | 23.301 | 32.699 | |||
Fail to lose edema on day 4 | Yes | 26(31.3) | 24.000 | 16.471 | 31.529 | 4.103 | .043 |
No | 182(57.2) | 16.000 | 14.450 | 17.550 | |||
Edema still present on day 10 | Yes | 14(22.6) | 24.000 | 21.447 | 26.553 | 4.259 | .039 |
No | 194(57.2) | 16.000 | 14.457 | 17.543 | |||
Fail to enter phase 2 on day 10 | Yes | 20(15.5) | 30.000 | 20.971 | 39.029 | 46.114 | .000 |
No | 188(69.1) | 14.000 | 13.061 | 14.939 | |||
Failure to gain more than 5 g/kg/d for 3 successive days | Yes | 28(19.3) | 26.000 | 23.262 | 28.738 | 28.002 | .000 |
No | 180(70.3) | 15.000 | 14.018 | 15.982 | |||