Trends and inequalities in oral rehydration therapy and continued feeding for children under five with diarrhoea in Sierra Leone

Table 1 Trends in the prevalence of children aged < 5 years with diarrhoea receiving oral rehydration therapy and continued feeding by different inequality dimensions in Sierra Leone, 2008, 2013, and 2019

	2008				2013				2019
Dimension	N	%	LB	UB	N	%	LB	UB	N	%	LB	UB
Age
15–19 years	46	61.7	45.4	75.7	105	51	39	63	39	42.9	26.4	61.2
20–49 years	629	56.1	50.2	61.7	1095	58.1	54.2	61.9	590	60.8	55.6	65.7
Economic status
Quintile 1 (poorest)	148	46.6	35.8	57.7	266	57.6	50.3	64.6	136	57.7	49.2	65.8
Quintile 2	162	57.6	46.8	67.7	267	60.0	53.5	66.3	160	65.3	56.5	73.1
Quintile 3	161	57.9	47.6	67.5	250	54.1	46.0	62.0	127	55.5	44.9	65.7
Quintile 4	130	62.4	49.5	73.8	234	56.0	48.3	63.4	117	61.2	49.6	71.7
Quintile 5 (richest)	72	60.2	49.2	70.2	180	60.5	50.9	69.3	87	56.4	43.5	68.4
Education
No education	513	55.4	48.6	62.0	833	58.2	53.7	62.5	339	63.1	56.5	69.3
Primary education	94	67.2	55.5	77.1	168	54.1	44.8	63.2	121	59.6	49.3	69.0
Secondary or higher education	67	49.4	35.9	63.0	199	57.6	49.4	65.4	169	52.9	44.5	61.2
Residence
Rural	523	55.6	48.6	62.4	879	56.9	52.6	61.2	412	60.3	54.5	65.8
Urban	152	59.4	49.6	68.5	321	59.1	53.2	64.8	217	58.5	49.4	67.0
Sex of the child
Female	326	57.9	49.6	65.8	610	55.8	51.3	60.2	288	57.5	50.9	63.9
Male	349	55.1	48.5	61.5	590	59.3	54.2	64.3	341	61.5	54.6	68.0
Region
East	121	42.3	31.6	53.8	239	55.7	47.7	63.4	163	56.4	47.5	65.0
North	371	63.9	55.5	71.5	576	56.8	51.8	61.6	70	70.5	58.3	80.3
Northwestern	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	154	66.6	55.7	76.0
South	104	44.6	31.9	58.2	211	58.6	49.0	67.6	113	49.3	39.1	59.4
West	78	58.9	48.5	68.6	173	61.3	52.5	69.4	127	58.7	46.0	70.3

N sample size, % percentage, LB lower bound, UB upper bound, NA not available as between 2008 and 2013, Sierra Leone had four regions

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