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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Nurs Stud. 2022 Jul 11;134:104325. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2022.104325

Table 3.

Risk Factors for Positive Urine Cultures from Multinomial Modela

Unadjusted Model Adjusted Model
mOR 95% CI P-value maOR 95% CI P-value
Age (years), continuous 1.01 0.99-1.02 0.08 1.01 (0.99-1.02) 0.61
Gender and Pregnancy
Male reference reference
Female Non-Pregnant 16.89 10.07-28.08 <0.001 20.26 (11.17-33.08) <0.001
Female Pregnant 4.00 (2.22-7.20) <0.001 5.57 (2.69-11.52) <0.001
Race and Ethnicity
White reference reference
Hispanic 0.49 (0.21-1.15) 0.10 0.50 (0.17-1.42) 0.19
African American 0.39 (0.16-0.99) 0.05 0.41 (0.13-1.26) 0.12
Other 0.25 (0.08-0.84) 0.03 0.31 (0.07-1.32) 0.11
Country of Birth
US reference -- -- --
Outside US 0.86 (0.60-1.23) 0.41 -- -- --
Clinic
Clinic A reference reference
Clinic B 0.94 (0.64-1.39) 0.77 0.93 (0.55-1.58) 0.79
UTI Symptoms
Asymptomatic reference reference
Symptomatic 2.53 (1.44-4.43) 0.001 2.94 (1.51-5.72) 0.002
Comorbidities
Hypertension 1.42 (0.99-2.04) 0.10 1.48 (0.88-2.49) 0.14
Diabetes 1.83 (1.24-2.71) 0.002 1.43 (0.88-2.34) 0.15
Obesity 2.40 (1.66-3.49) <0.001 2.15 (1.41-3.26) <0.001
Anemia 1.40 (0.69-2.85) 0.35 -- -- --

mOR- multinomial odds ratio, CI-confidence interval, maOR- multinomial adjusted odds ratio, UTI-urinary tract infection