Table 4.
Factors associated with knowledge of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis among respondents by multiple linear regression (n = 513).
| B | SE | Beta | P value | 95% CI | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||
| Age (35–49 years) | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.078 | −0.1 | 2.8 |
| Age (≥50 years) | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.035 | 0.1 | 3.2 |
| Education (tertiary) | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.056 | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| Type of work (blue-collar) | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.083 | −0.1 | 2.2 |
| Awareness of knee osteoarthritis as a disease entity | 12.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | <0.001 | 11.0 | 13.9 |
| Having family members with knee osteoarthritis | 5.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | <0.001 | 4.1 | 6.9 |
| Diagnosed clinically to have knee osteoarthritis | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.011 | 0.5 | 3.7 |
*The reference group for gender is “female”; for age is “20–34 years”; for education level is “primary”; for occupation is “white-collar”; for all other variables is “no.”
**B: unstandardized coefficients, SE: standard error, Beta: standardized coefficients, CI: confidence intervals.