The study aimed to investigate the factors that influence under-five children diarrhea in Sudan. The study depends on the data found in Sudan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2014 (MICS 2014). The sample size was (14081) participants. The study adopted multiple logistic regression to examine the relationship between the variables of the study. The study revealed the results: the prevalence of diarrhea among under-five years was 27.7%, the prevalence of diarrhea among under-five years in rural areas is higher than that in urban areas. There is a relationship between having diarrhea and the variables such as attending an early childhood program, age of a child, and wealth index quantile. However, the model revealed an insignificant association between having diarrhea and area, mother education, gender.

predictive model, influences, diarrhea, under-five children.

Received: September 21, 2021; Accepted: November 8, 2021; Published: January 17, 2022

How to cite this article: Mohammed Omar Musa Mohammed and Ahmed Saied Rahama Abdallah, Predictive model for assessment of the factors influencing under-five child diarrhea in Sudan, JP Journal of Biostatistics 19 (2022), 81-94. DOI: 10.17654/0973514322005

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