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. 2013 May 29;3(5):e002875. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002875

Table 4.

Factors associated with work outside Uganda or at an HIV-related NGO among MUST alumni, 2010

  OR and 95% CI of outcome variable
Outside Uganda
Work at HIV-related NGO
Predictor Crude Adjusted* Crude Adjusted*
Year of graduation
 Graduation in or before 2005 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Graduation after 2005 0.46 (0.29 to 0.76) 0.24 (0.10 to 0.59) 1.75 (1.24 to 2.48) 1.53 (1.06 to 2.23)
Internship
 Internship in Uganda 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 No internship in Uganda 0.68 (0.27 to 1.7) 0.48 (0.11 to 2.07) 2.13 (1.17 to 3.88) 1.99 (1.08 to 3.68)
Gender
 Male 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Female 1.35 (0.87 to 2.11) 1.01 (0.62 to 1.65) 1.4 (0.98 to 1.99) 1.52 (1.04 to 2.21)
Degree at MUST
 Medicine 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Nursing 0.58 (0.25 to 1.29) 0.42 (0.09 to 1.85) 0.82 (0.46 to 1.42) 0.62 (0.32 to 1.16)
 Medical laboratory 0.19 (0.04 to 0.81) 0.21 (0.03 to 1.61) 2.23 (1.22 to 4.06) 1.96 (1.06 to 3.62)
 Pharmacy† 1.62 (0.38 to 6.87) 0.85 (0.16 to 4.33)
Postgraduate training
 None 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Master's and/or PhD 3.7 (2.3 to 5.9) 3.1 (1.54 to 6.49) 0.53 (0.38 to 0.75) 0.58 (0.41 to 0.83)

*Adjusted for gender and age.

†No pharmacy graduate in the survey was out of the country.

MUST, Mbarara University of Science and Technology; NGO, non-governmental organisation.