Abstract Background In causal analyses, some third factor may distort the relationship between the exposure and the outcome variables under study, which gives spurious results.
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.In this case, treatment groups and control groups that receive and do not receive the exposure are different from one another in some other essential variables, called confounders.Method Place of birth was used as exposure variable and age-specific childhood vaccination status was used as outcome variables.
Three approaches of confounder selection techniques such as all pre-treatment covariates, outcome cause covariates, and common cause covariates were proposed.Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate the propensity score for inverse probability treatment weighting (IPTW) confounder adjustment techniques.The proportional odds model was used to estimate the causal effect of place of birth on age-specific childhood vaccination.
To validate the result obtained from observed data, we used a plasmode simulation of resampling 1000 samples from actual data 500 times.Result Outcome cause and common cause confounder identification techniques gave comparable results in terms of treatment effect in the plasmode data.However, outcome causes that contain common causes and predictors of the outcome confounder identification gave relatively better treatment effect results.
The treatment effect result in the IPTW confounder adjustment method was better than that of the regression adjustment method.The effect of place of birth on log odds of cumulative probability of age-specific childhood vaccination was 0.36 with odds ratio of 1.
43 for higher level vaccination status.Conclusion It is essential to use plasmode simulation data to validate the reproducibility of the proposed methods on the observed data.
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.It is important to use outcome-cause covariates to adjust their confounding effect on the outcome.
Using inverse probability treatment weighting gives unbiased treatment effect results as compared to the regression method of confounder adjustment.Institutional delivery increases the likelihood of childhood vaccination at the recommended schedule