Table IV.
Odds Ratios of HBV Screening with HBM variables, Knowledge Score on HBV transmission modes and Sources of Information, All Ethnicities, n=726
| Variables | Unadjusted Odds Ratio |
95% CI | Odds Ratio in Path Analysis Model |
95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source of HBV information | ||||
| Physician | 2.98*** | 2.32, 4.11 | 3.06*** | 2.13, 4.42 |
| Friends or acquaintances | 0.77 | 0.57, 1.05 | 0.71 | 0.49, 1.03 |
| Newspaper | 1.23 | 0.92, 1.67 | 1.27 | 0.85, 1.90 |
| TV | 1.10 | 0.80, 1.51 | 0.86 | 0.57, 1.32 |
| Internet | 1.25 | 0.91, 1.72 | 0.95 | 0.63, 1.43 |
| Mediators | ||||
| Perceived benefit | 1.01 | 0.92, 1.11 | ||
| Perceived risk | 0.94 | 0.88, 1.01 | ||
| Perceived severity | 0.98 | 0.88, 1.09 | ||
| Self-efficacy | 1.14* | 1.02, 1.28 | ||
| Knowledge on transmission modes | 1.15*** | 1.07, 1.24 | ||
| Control variables | ||||
| Age | 1.01* | 1.00, 1.03 | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 1.00 | |||
| Female | 1.25 | 0.89, 1.76 | ||
| Educational level | ||||
| Less than college graduate | 1.00 | |||
| College graduate and plus | 1.36** | 1.11, 1.65 | ||
| English proficiency | ||||
| Poor/so-so | 1.00 | |||
| Well | 1.04 | 0.68, 1.58 | ||
| Proportion of life in U.S. | ||||
| 25% or <25% | 1.00 | |||
| >25% | 0.42*** | 0.29, 0.62 | ||
| Health insurance coverage | ||||
| No | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 1.18 | 0.80, 1.74 | ||
| Family history of HBV infection | ||||
| No | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 1.69* | 1.04, 2.73 |
*
p<0.05,
**
p<0.01,
***
p<0.001