Table 4.
Factors associated with nurses’ (n = 680) attitudes (high/low) toward oral health care controlling for background characteristics as shown by a logistic regression model
| |
B |
S.E. |
Sig. |
OR |
95% C.I. for OR |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||
| Paediatric score |
0.19 |
0.08 |
.020 |
1.21 |
1.03 |
1.43 |
| Dental score |
0.28 |
0.09 |
.001 |
1.33 |
1.12 |
1.57 |
| Medical score |
0.07 |
0.05 |
.170 |
1.08 |
0.97 |
1.19 |
| OHB |
0.11 |
0.05 |
.020 |
1.12 |
1.02 |
1.23 |
| Working area |
0.47 |
0.24 |
.049 |
1.59 |
1.00 |
2.53 |
| Willingness to Receive information |
1.67 |
0.26 |
.000 |
5.31 |
3.21 |
8.78 |
| Educational degree | 0.64 | 0.19 | .001 | 1.89 | 1.29 | 2.77 |
All variables were used in their continuous form except for degree, working area, and willingness to receive information.
Educational degree: 1 = BS and MS, 2 = two years university studies, 3 = diploma and lower.
Working area: 1 = affluent area, 2 = non-affluent area.
Willingness to receive information: 0: No, 1: Yes.
Goodness of fit with Hosmer and Lemeshow test, P- value = 0.146.