The interplay of socio-demographic factors and disease prevalence: insights into malaria, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C in Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Aremu, Dorcas Oluwakemi; Maxim, Antipov; Aremu, Stephen Olaide; Aremu, Damilola Esther; Terhemen, Yakubu Daniel; Itodo, Samuel Olusegun; Barkhadle, Abdillahi Abdi

doi:10.1186/s41043-025-00779-5

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Table 4 Correlation analysis of socio-demographic factors, Malaria, HBsAg, and HCV prevalence among patients in Lafia, Nasarawa State

From: The interplay of socio-demographic factors and disease prevalence: insights into malaria, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C in Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

		Sex	Age	HBsAg	HCV	MP	Vaccinated	Marital status	Income_level	Water source	Use of mosquito net	Clinical manifestation
Sex	Pearson Correlation	1	0.035	0.035	0.002	− 0.139^*	0.025	0.072	0.003	− 0.176^**	− 0.004	0.101
	Sig. (2-tailed)		0.574	0.575	0.979	0.024	0.688	0.245	0.967	0.004	0.951	0.101
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Age	Pearson Correlation	0.035	1	− 0.051	0.218^**	− 0.113	0.048	0.659^**	0.093	0.243^**	− 0.034	0.001
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.574		0.405	0.000	0.066	0.442	0.000	0.133	0.000	0.578	0.985
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
HBsAg	Pearson Correlation	0.035	− 0.051	1	− 0.043	0.005	− 0.071	− 0.016	− 0.035	− 0.082	0.015	0.173^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.575	0.405		0.483	0.940	0.252	0.791	0.566	0.186	0.802	0.005
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
HCV	Pearson Correlation	0.002	0.218^**	− 0.043	1	− 0.049	− 0.036	0.223^**	0.022	0.087	0.028	− 0.031
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.979	0.000	0.483		0.430	0.560	0.000	0.723	0.157	0.654	0.617
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
MP	Pearson Correlation	− 0.139^*	− 0.113	0.005	− 0.049	1	− 0.074	− 0.135^*	0.009	0.149^*	− 0.231^**	0.194^**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.024	0.066	0.940	0.430		0.232	0.028	0.885	0.015	0.000	0.001
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Vaccinated	Pearson Correlation	0.025	0.048	− 0.071	− 0.036	− 0.074	1	0.042	0.131^*	0.014	0.003	− 0.024
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.688	0.442	0.252	0.560	0.232		0.492	0.033	0.819	0.956	0.693
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Marital_status	Pearson Correlation	0.072	0.659^**	− 0.016	0.223^**	− 0.135^*	0.042	1	0.121^*	0.098	0.053	− 0.061
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.245	0.000	0.791	0.000	0.028	0.492		0.049	0.111	0.388	0.321
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Income_level	Pearson Correlation	0.003	0.093	− 0.035	0.022	0.009	0.131^*	0.121^*	1	− 0.084	− 0.144^*	0.088
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.967	0.133	0.566	0.723	0.885	0.033	0.049		0.171	0.020	0.153
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Water_source	Pearson Correlation	− 0.176^**	0.243^**	− 0.082	0.087	0.149^*	0.014	0.098	− 0.084	1	− 0.206^**	− 0.006
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.004	0.000	0.186	0.157	0.015	0.819	0.111	0.171		0.001	0.923
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Use of Mosquito net	Pearson Correlation	− 0.004	− 0.034	0.015	0.028	− 0.231^**	0.003	0.053	− 0.144^*	− 0.206^**	1	− 0.091
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.951	0.578	0.802	0.654	0.000	0.956	0.388	0.020	0.001		0.139
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264
Clinical Manifestation	Pearson Correlation	0.101	0.001	0.173^**	− 0.031	0.194^**	− 0.024	− 0.061	0.088	− 0.006	− 0.091	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.101	0.985	0.005	0.617	0.001	0.693	0.321	0.153	0.923	0.139
	N	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264	264

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

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