Associations between community asthma prevalence and individual indicators of infrastructure, socioeconomic and lifestyle indices
Groups | Indicators | Bivariate analyses | Multivariate analyses | |||
β | p | β | CI (95%) | p | ||
Infrastructure | Administrative grade (parish) | 0.017 | 0.989 | |||
Spatial organisation | ||||||
(a) Disperse (reference) | – | – | ||||
(b) Blocks | 0.147 | 0.919 | ||||
(c) Neighbourhood | 0.615 | 0.712 | ||||
Transport access (road) | −1.377 | 0.263 | −6.059 | −9.313 to −2.805 | <0.001 | |
Electrical grid (Yes) | 2.226 | 0.142 | 5.117 | 1.702 to 8.532 | 0.004 | |
Piped-water system (Yes) | 0.455 | 0.721 | ||||
Telephone system (Yes) | 0.939 | 0.443 | ||||
Health centre (Yes) | 2.076 | 0.089 | ||||
Pharmacy (Yes) | 2.296 | 0.058 | ||||
Educational institution (Yes) | 0.449 | 0.715 | ||||
Shops | ||||||
(a) 0–1 (reference) | – | – | – | – | ||
(b) 2–5 | 0.407 | 0.866 | 0.706 | −3.664 to 5.077 | 0.747 | |
(c) 6–15 | 1.603 | 0.484 | 3.974 | −0.433 to 8.381 | 0.076 | |
(d) >15 | 1.994 | 0.390 | 5.065 | 0.168 to 9.961 | 0.043 | |
Socioeconomic | Father's education | 0.072 | 0.19 | |||
Mother's education | 0.023 | 0.62 | −0.074 | −0.193 to 0.046 | 0.221 | |
Household income | 0.072 | 0.077 | 0.099 | −0.11 to 0.208 | 0.078 | |
Access to electricity | 0.029 | 0.077 | 0.045 | 0.005 to 0.084 | 0.028 | |
Material goods | 0.104 | 0.05 | ||||
Cement house | 0.009 | 0.865 | −0.127 | −0.247 to −0.008 | 0.037 | |
Gas for cooking | 0.046 | 0.019 | ||||
Motor vehicles | 0.164 | 0.012 | 0.168 | 0.043 to 0.294 | 0.009 | |
Uncrowded household | −0.053 | 0.235 | ||||
Lifestyle | Hamburger consumption | 0.104 | 0.015 | 0.076 | −0.025 to 0.176 | 0.137 |
Fizzy drink consumption | 0.121 | 0.004 | 0.132 | 0.041 to 0.223 | 0.005 | |
No physical exercise | 0.064 | 0.12 | 0.069 | −0.012 to 0.149 | 0.093 | |
Television in house | 0.034 | 0.111 | −0.034 | −0.088 to 0.020 | 0.214 | |
TV viewing | 0.048 | 0.046 | ||||
No farming activities | 0.065 | 0.05 | ||||
Cat in house | 0.091 | 0.025 | 0.049 | −0.035 to 0.133 | 0.248 | |
Dog in house | 0.050 | 0.191 | ||||
Migration | 0.061 | 0.22 | ||||
Parasite infection rate | 0.009 | 0.777 |
Results shown are for bivariate and multivariate linear regression analyses.