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. 2010 Jun 17;36(1):47–55. doi: 10.1007/s10900-010-9285-y

Table 6.

Logistic regression results for Hepatitis B vaccination (N = 78)

Variable (bolded variables are statistically significant at least at P < 0.05) Odds ratio SE Z P > |Z| 95% confidence interval
Demographics/medical coverage
Has medicare coverage (1 = yes, 0 = no) 0.02 0.02 3.24 0.001 0.000.21
Highest grade of school completed (1 = elementary school, 6 = post-graduate school) 1.04 0.30 0.13 0.90 0.59–1.81
Currently employed part time (one part time position) (1 = yes, 0 = no) 0.29 0.25 −1.41 0.16 0.05–1.62
Currently retired (1 = yes, 0 = no) 4.04 5.46 1.03 0.30 0.29–57.03
Hepatitis B knowledge
In your opinion, Hepatitis B can be transmitted by eating unclean food (1 = true, 0 = false) 8.34 7.66 2.31 0.02 1.3850.46
Information sources
Gets information about health and health care from the employee assistance program (1 = yes, 0 = no) 0.12 0.09 2.76 0.01 0.030.54
Gets information about health and health care from social service provider or community health center (1 = yes, 0 = no) 0.71 0.53 −0.46 0.64 0.17–3.03
Model goodness of fit measures
LR chi2 (df = 7) 35.32
Prob > chi2 0.01
Pseudo R2 0.40
Log likelihood −26.74