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. 2024 Oct 23;21(11):1397. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21111397

Table 7.

Factors affecting the likelihood of reporting enough knowledge to take protective actions, and of ever having discussed concerns about environmental health risks with a healthcare provider, using multivariate logistic regression analyses.

Variables Enough Knowledge to Take Protective Actions Ever Discussed Hazards with Healthcare Provider
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
Pregnancy status
 Never 1.0 1.0
 Currently 1.46 (0.88–2.42) 2.29 (1.33–3.94) **
 Past 1.58 (1.26–1.99) *** 1.72 (1.29–2.30) ***
Immigrated (within last 10 years)
 No 1.0
 Yes 2.91 (1.94–4.39) ***
Level of concern about environmental exposures
 Not at all to slightly 1.0
 Moderately to very 1.60 (1.15–2.22) **
Perceptions that day-to-day exposures can be harmful to child health
 Strongly disagree to neutral 1.0
 Agree to strongly agree 1.59 (1.10–2.31) *
Take day-to-day protective actions
 No 1.0 1.0
 Yes 2.61 (2.06–3.31) *** 2.15 (1.57–2.95) ***
Want to take protective actions but unable
 No 1.0
 Yes 1.62 (1.23–2.14) ***
Enough knowledge to take protective actions
 Not really to not at all 1.0
 To some extent or definitely 1.94 (1.45–2.61) ***
Ever discussed hazards with healthcare provider
 No 1.0
 Yes 2.05 (1.52–2.76) ***
Observations (unweighted) n = 1849 n = 1848
Pseudo R2 (Nagelkerke) 0.148 0.189

Note: OR = odds ratio, 95% CI = (95% confidence interval); * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.