Research Article
Child Health in the Peruvian Amazon: Prevalence and Factors Associated with Referred Morbidity and Health Care Access in the City of Iñapari
Table 8
Factors associated with hospitalization.
| Variables () | Hospitalization | | Yes (%) | No (%) | value |
| Sex | | | | | Male | 58 | 24.1 | 75.9 | | Female | 50 | 8.0 | 92.0 | Age | | | | | <2 y.o | 51 | 5.9 | 94.1 | | ≥2 y.o | 57 | 26.3 | 73.7 | Years of maternal schooling | | | | | None | 2 | 100.0 | 0.0 | | 1 to 4 years | 6 | 16.7 | 83.3 | 5 to 8 years | 25 | 20.0 | 80.0 | 8 years | 72 | 13.9 | 86.1 | Morbidities during pregnancy | | | | | No | 44 | 27.3 | 72.7 | | Yes | 61 | 9.8 | 90.2 | Routine health care appointment with medical doctor or nurse in 2010 | | | | | No | 45 | 26.7 | 73.3 | | Yes | 63 | 9.5 | 90.5 | Child health care appointments | | | | | No | 13 | 38.5 | 61.5 | | Yes, once in a while | 26 | 7.7 | 92.3 | Yes, frequently | 28 | 3.6 | 96.4 | Only when sick | 41 | 24.4 | 75.6 |
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. Chi-square test. Fisher exact test.
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