Table 4.
Logistic regression of the prevalence of respiratory symptoms relative to the study community.
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| VARIABLE | CATEGORIES | p-VALUE | ODDS RATIOS | 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL | |
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| LOWER | UPPER | ||||
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| Community | Sampou | 1 | |||
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| Gbarain | 0.261 | 0.768 | 0.485 | 1.216 | |
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| Nembe | 0.596 | 1.127 | 0.725 | 1.751 | |
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| Age | 0.839 | 0.998 | 0.981 | 1.016 | |
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| Sex | Females | 1 | |||
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| Males | 0.037* | 0.679 | 0.472 | 0.976 | |
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| Employment status | Unemployed | 1 | |||
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| Self employed | 0.665 | 1.103 | 0.708 | 1.718 | |
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| Working for another | 0.362 | 1.335 | 0.717 | 2.487 | |
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| Educational status | None | 1 | |||
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| Primary | 0.078 | 3.345 | 0.874 | 12.807 | |
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| Secondary | 0.348 | 0.657 | 0.273 | 1.580 | |
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| Tertiary | 0.275 | 0.598 | 0.237 | 1.505 | |
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| Vocational/Technical | 0.736 | 0.815 | 0.248 | 2.675 | |
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| Alcohol consumption | None | 1 | |||
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| Occasional | 0.381 | 1.557 | 0.579 | 4.190 | |
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| Habitual | 0.697 | 1.221 | 0.447 | 3.333 | |
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| Perception of health risk score | High | 0.002* | 0.935 | 0.895 | 0.976 |
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| Low | 1 | ||||
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| No smoking | 1 | ||||
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| Smoking | Past smoker | 0.189 | 1.623 | 0.788 | 3.343 |
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| Present smoker | 0.002* | 4.279 | 1.680 | 10.898 | |
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