Table 5.
Results of the multivariate logistic regression analyses on association between satisfactory health risk awareness and sociodemographic, living condition, and occupational factors
Variables | OR | 95.0% CI for ORa | P | |
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Lower | Upper | |||
Age | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | <0.001 |
Gender (male/female; reference: female) | 2.1 | 1.5 | 2.8 | <0.001 |
Education (reference: primary school) | ||||
Middle school | 1.3 | 0.65 | 2.5 | 0.482 |
High school | 2.3 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 0.014 |
Post-secondary | 4.7 | 2.3 | 9.5 | <0.001 |
Newspaper (reference: no reading) | ||||
Occasion | 1.2 | 0.70 | 2.0 | 0.512 |
Regular | 2.5 | 1.4 | 4.5 | 0.001 |
Occupation (reference: no job) | ||||
Manufacturing | 2.8 | 1.8 | 4.2 | <0.001 |
Hotel and restaurant | 1.8 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.003 |
Construction | 2.7 | 1.6 | 4.5 | <0.001 |
Constant | 0.001 | <0.001 |
Variables entered into multivariate model included city, gender, age, education, marital status, monthly expenditure, monthly income, watching television, reading newspapers, using the Internet, living environment, occupation, and occupational training
OR Odds ratio, CI confidence interval
aResults on the independent variables that showed no significant association with satisfactory health risk awareness were not shown in the table