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. 2024 Jul 15;19:37. doi: 10.51866/oa.458

Table 5. Factors influencing the attitude towards medical aesthetic services.

 

Univariate analysis

Binary logistic regression analysis

Characteristic

Crude OR

95% CI

Wald’s X2 (df)

P

Adjusted OR

95% CI

Wald’s X2 (df)

P

Age

1.005

0.963-1.048

0.052

0.819

-

-

-

-

Sex

Male

Female

1.00

1.280

0.706-2.322

0.660

0.416

 

 

 

 

Marital status

Single

Married

Widowed or divorced

1.00

1.232

2.713

0.597-2.543

0.438-16.811

0.318 (1)

1.150 (1)

0.573

0.284

-

-

-

-

Highest educational level

Secondary school

Degree

Higher degree

1.00

0.983

0.814

0.352-2.741

0.223-2.965

0.001 (1)

0.097 (1)

0.973

0.755

-

-

-

-

Occupation

Student

Unemployed

Employed

1.00

0.783

1.070

0.244-2.507

0.467-2.451

0.170 (1) 0.026 (1)

0.680

0.873

-

-

-

-

Ethnicity

Malay

Chinese

Indian

Others

1.00

0.517

0.669

0.599

0.086-3.112

0.095-4.710

0.147-2.432

0.519 (1)

0.163 (1)

0.541 (1)

0.471

0.686

0.473

-

-

-

-

Religion

Muslim

Christian

Buddhist

Hindu

1.00

2.752

7.455

5.004

0.454-16.685

0.932-59.650

0.727-34.439

1.212 (1)

3.584 (1)

2.677 (1)

0.271

0.058

0.102

1.551

3.415

3.442

0.564-4.265

1.111-10.497

1.763-6.718

0.722 (1)

4.597 (1)

13.115 (1)

0.396

0.032

0.000

Location

City

Town

Village

1.00

0.625

1.170

0.350-1.116

0.245-5.598

2.529 (1)

0.039 (1)

0.112

0.844

-

-

-

NS

Income

<RM 2500

RM 2500-5000

RM 5001-9999

>RM 10,000

1.00

0.932

0.510

0.549

0.466-1.864

0.228-1.142

0.214-1.410

0.039 (1)

2.680 (1)

1.553 (1)

0.843

0.102

0.213

-

-

-

NS

Experience in undergoing aesthetic treatment

Yes

No

1.00

0.928

0.268-3.215

0.014 (1)

0.906

 

 

 

 

Duration of receiving aesthetic treatment

<1 year

1-5 years

>5 years

Never

1.00

2.412

6.079

0.684

0.804-7.234

0.698-52.922

0.202-2.318

2.467 (1) 2.672 (1) 0.373 (1)

0.116

0.102

0.541

2.609

6.895

0.637

0.917-7.428

0.827-57.484

0.341-1.193

3.228 (1)

3.184 (1)

1.985 (1)

0.072

0.074

0.159

Knowledge score

1.273

0.742-2.181

0.769 (1)

0.381

-

-

-

-

Perception score on the importance of being physically attractive

0.525

0.297-0.927

4.939 (1)

0.026

0.499

0.292-0.850

6.532 (1)

0.011

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; df, degree of freedom; NS, Non-significance. Income and location were included in the final model based on the significant level (p<0.25) from the univariate test but were found not significant. They were removed from the last step in the final model due to non-significance thus providing no detailed values.