Table 1 Baseline socio-demographics and co-morbidity characteristics of SAM children admitted at Felege Hiwot Referal Hospital therapeutic feeding center, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2016 (n = 401)
Variables | Category | Death frequency (%) | Censored frequency (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Sex | Male | 26 (11.66) | 197 (88.34) |
Female | 8 (4.49) | 170 (95.51) | |
Age | 6–24 | 26 (10.20) | 229 (89.80) |
25–59 | 8 (5.48) | 138 (94.52) | |
Residence | Urban | 9 (7.2) | 116 (92.8) |
Rural | 25 (9.06) | 25 1 (90.94) | |
Breast feeding | Yes | 31 (8.18) | 348 (91.82) |
No | 3 (13.64) | 19 (86.36) | |
Vaccination for age | Unvaccinated/partial | 21 (28.38) | 53 (71.62) |
Fully vaccinated | 13 (3.98) | 314 (96.02) | |
Diarrhea | Yes | 13 (8.97) | 132 (91.03) |
No | 21 (8.20) | 235 (91.80) | |
Tuberculosis | Yes | 6 (16.22) | 31 (83.78) |
No | 28 (7.69) | 336 (92.31) | |
HIV | Yes | 7 (26.92) | 19 (73.08) |
No | 27 (7.20) | 348 (92.8) | |
Pneumonia | Yes | 18 (11.46) | 139 (88.54) |
No | 16 (6.56) | 228 (93.46) | |
URTI | Yes | 5 (14.72) | 29 (85.28) |
No | 29 (7.90) | 338 (92.10) | |
Measles | Yes | 7 (17.07) | 34 (82.93) |
No | 23 (6.59) | 326 (93.41) | |
CHF | Yes | 6 (20.69) | 23 (79.31) |
No | 28 (7.53) | 344 (92.47) |