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Table 2 Association between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge score of cervical cancer screening among study participants at Wollega University, 2017

From: Knowledge, attitude and practice of cervical cancer screening and associated factors amongst female students at Wollega University, western Ethiopia

Characteristic

Category

Knowledge status

COR 95% CI

AOR 95% CI

Unsatisfactory knowledge

Satisfactory knowledgeable

Age in years

15–20

21 (4.3%)

4 (1.3%)

1

 

21–25

361 (74.1%)

314 (98.7%)

4.56 (1.55,13.44)

5.8 (1.9,18)

26–30

105 (21.6%)

0 (0%)

  

Year of study

Second year

265 (54.4%)

229 (72%)

1

 

Third year

123 (25.3%)

36 (11.3%)

0.33 (0.22, 0.51)

0.84 (0.5, 1.4)

Forth year

80 (16.4%)

47 (14.8%)

0.68 (0.45, 1.01)

0.89 (0.56, 1.41)

Fifth year

19 (3.9%)

6 (1.9%)

0.36 (0.14, 0.93)

0.9 (0.63, 1.8)

College/school

Engineering and technology

197 (22%)

147 (46.2%)

1

1

Natural and computational sciences

107 (22%)

52 (16.4%)

0.65 (0.44, 0.96)

1.1 (0.69, 1.78)

Medicine and health Sciences

55 (11.3%)

36 (11.3%)

0.87 (0.54, 1.4)

1.3 (0.74, 2.2)

Business and economics

80 (16.4%)

65 (20.4%)

1.09 (0.73, 1.61)

0.99 (0.64, 1.5)

Social Science and humanities

48 (9.9%)

18 (5.7%)

0.5 (0.28, 0.9)

0.73 (0.37, 1.4)