Table 4 Multivariate analysis of factors associated with poor knowledge and attitudes towards hepatitis B prevention among medicine and health Science students at the University of Gondar, 2015
Variables | Knowledge | AOR (95 % CI) | P value | Attitude | AOR (95 % CI) | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Good | Poor | Favorable | Not | |||||
Sex | ||||||||
Male | 160 (85.6) | 27 (14.4) | 1.3 (0.5–3.8) | 0.59 | 104 (55.6) | 83 (44.4) | 1.3 (0.6–2.7) | 0.51 |
Female | 52 (88.1) | 7 (11.9) | 1.0 | – | 30 (50.8) | 29 (49.2) | 1.0 | |
Age | ||||||||
20–24 | 185 (85.3) | 32 (14.7) | 3.8 (0.6–23.3) | 0.14 | 115 (53.0) | 102 (47.0) | 1.5 (0.5–3.9) | 0.45 |
25–29 | 27 (93.1) | 2 (6.9) | 1.0 | – | 19 (65.5) | 10 (34.5) | 1.0 | – |
Residence | ||||||||
Rural | 86 (84.3) | 16 (15.7) | 1.2 (0.5–2.7) | 0.71 | 54 (52.9) | 48 (47.1) | 0.8 (0.4–1.4) | 0.41 |
Urban | 126 (87.5) | 18 (12.5) | 1.0 | – | 80 (55.6) | 64 (44.4) | 1.0 | – |
Profession | ||||||||
Medicine | 72 (97.3) | 2 (2.7) | 1.0 | – | 60 (81.1) | 14 (18.9) | 1.0 | – |
MLT | 17 (100) | 0 (0.0) | 0.0 | 0.99 | 10 (58.8) | 7 (41.2) | 2.7 (0.9–8.5) | 0.09 |
PHO | 26 (74.3) | 9 (25.7) | 10.9 (2.2–55.2) | 0.00 | 27 (77.1) | 8 (22.9) | 1.3 (0.5–3.5) | 0.63 |
Nursing | 29 (85.3) | 5 (14.7) | 5.87 (1.1–32.9) | 0.04 | 9 (26.5) | 25 (73.5) | 12.7 (4.7–34.1) | 0.00 |
Midwifery | 31 (93.9) | 2 (6.1) | 2.02 (0.3–15.5) | 0.49 | 9 (27.3) | 24 (72.7) | 12.3 (4.5–33.7) | 0.00 |
Anaesthesia | 11 (91.7) | 1 (8.3) | 2.93 (0.2–36.0) | 0.40 | 6 (50.0) | 6 (50.0) | 4.6 (1.3–16.9) | 0.02 |
Physiotherapy | 8 (72.8) | 3 (27.3) | 11.6 (1.7–82.2) | 0.01 | 3 (27.3) | 8 (72.7) | 11.6 (2.7–50.3) | 0.00 |
Optometry | 4 (36.4) | 7 (63.6) | 81.7 (11.4–585) | 0.00 | 2 (18.2) | 9 (81.8) | 22.5 (4.2–122.3) | 0.00 |
Psychiatry | 14 (73.7) | 5 (26.3) | 11.0 (1.9–63.4) | 0.01 | 8 (42.1) | 11 (57.9) | 5.4 (1.8–16.1) | 0.00 |
Overall | 212 (86.2) | 34 (13.8) | – | – | 134 (54.5) | 112 (45.5) | – | – |