Food Insecurity, Nutritional Status, and Factors Associated with Malnutrition among People Living with HIV/AIDS Attending Antiretroviral Therapy at Public Health Facilities in West Shewa Zone, Central Ethiopia

Table 3

Nutritional status of HIV/AIDS patients attending antiretroviral therapy in public health facilities, West Shewa Zone, Ethiopia, 2017.

Variables	Undernourished		-value	value
	No	Yes
	Number (%)	Number (%)
Age
18–24	31 (81.6)	7 (18.4)	0.6	0.968
25–34	134 (76.6)	42 (23.4)
35–44	146 (75.7)	47 (24.3)
45–54	62 (75.6)	20 (24.4)
>54	13 (76.5)	4 (23.5)
Sex
Male	196 (81.3)	45 (18.7)	6.8	0.009
Female	190 (72.0)	74 (28.0)
Residence
Rural	263 (75.1)	87 (24.9)	1.1	0.299
Urban	123 (79.3)	32 (20.7)
Marital status
Single	67 (72.8)	25 (27.2)	8.8	0.032
Married	263 (78.1)	74 (21.9)
Widowed	34 (66.7)	17 (33.3)
Divorced/separated	21 (88.0)	3 (12.0)
Ethnicity
Oromo	316 (75.8)	101 (24.2)	2.5	0.293
Amhara	55 (77.5)	16 (22.5)
Others	15 (88.2)	2 (11.8)
Religion
Protestant	139 (78.5)	38 (21.5)	1.3	0.72
Orthodox	223 (74.6)	76 (25.4)
Muslim	20 (83.3)	4 (16.7)
Others	4 (80.0)	1 (20.0)
Education
Illiterate	126 (69.6)	55 (30.4)	7.1	0.004
Literate	260 (80.2)	64 (19.8)
Occupation
Employed	337 (79.2)	86 (20.8)	28.9	0.0001
Unemployed	49 (59.8)	33 (40.2)
WHO clinical Stage
Stage I	45 (91.8)	4 (8.2)	30.8	0.0001
Stage II	78 (89.7)	9 (10.3)
Stage III	183 (75.9)	58 (24.1)
Stage IV	80 (62.5)	48 (37.5)
CD4 count
<350 cells/μl	281 (72.7)	107 (27.6)	8.7	0.003
≥350 cells/μl	105 (89.7)	12 (10.3)
Tuberculosis
Yes	38 (60.3)	25 (39.7)	10.1	0.002
No	348 (78.7)	94 (21.3)
ART duration
<44 months	183 (70.1)	78 (29.9)	8.3	0.004
≥44 months	203 (73.2)	41 (16.8)
Household food security
Secure	295 (90.2)	32 (9.8)	118.5	0.0001
insecure	91 (51.1)	87 (48.9)
Total	386 (76.4)	119 (23.6)