Table 5 Effect of individual covariates on the ordinal outcome.

Global covariates

- Treatment (Reference: AQ)

   SP/AQ

-1.776

0.633

2.805

-1.638

0.566

2.893

   AQ+SP/AQ

1.797

1.533

1.172

1.418

1.128

1.257

- Center (Reference: Yaoundé)

   Bert/Ydé

0.100

0.550

0.181

   Gar/Ydé

0.458

0.589

0.777

Individual covariates

- Baseline temperature*

-0.577

0.264

2.18

-0.614

0.266

2.308**

- Fever before inclusion

-0.003

0.070

0.05

- Parasitemia

-0.072

0.071

1.02

- Hematocrit Day 0

0.341

0.518

0.74

- Automedication Y/N

0.014

0.524

0.03

- Age B/A

0.391

0.511

0.77

- Age C/A

0.989

0.728

1.35

- Age (months)

0.010

0.012

0.87

- Gender M = 1/F = 0

0.279

0.468

0.60

- Bodyweights*

1.373

0.716

1.91

0.113

0.06

1.91