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. 2015 Sep 4;15:360. doi: 10.1186/s12913-015-1027-5

Table 3.

Absolute and relative changes in proportion of respondents who believeda that it was important to adolescents that the physician ensured confidentiality of their consultancy about SRH issues, by survey yearb and socio-demographic factors: results from the multivariate analysis

Absolute change Relative change
% (95 % CI) p-value PR (95 % CI) p-value
Constant 63.1 (53.5 to 72.6) <0.001 0.61 (0.53 to 0.71) <0.001
Gender:
 Male (ref.) 0 1
 Female 6.9 (2.2 to 11.6) 0.004 1.12 (1.05 to 1.21) 0.001
Age (years):
 16–34 (ref.) 0 1
 35–54 −8.9 (−15.6 to −2.2) 0.005 0.88 (0.80 to 0.96) 0.004
 55–74 −10.9 (−18.5 to −3.3) 0.009 0.85 (0.76 to 0.95) 0.004
Education:
 Basic or lower (ref.) 0 1
 General (secondary school) 7.1 (−0.1 to 14.3) 0.051 1.12 (1.00 to 1.25) 0.054
 Further education 7.6 (−0.1 to 15.2) 0.051 1.13 (1.00 to 1.27) 0.057
 Higher (university) 4.2 (−4.0 to 12.3) 0.317 1.08 (0.96 to 1.23) 0.198
Marital status:
 Married (ref.) 0 1
 Single 1.5 (−6.0 to 9.1) 0.688 1.03 (0.93 to 1.14) 0.572
 Divorced −4.4 (−12.1 to 3.2) 0.256 0.94 (0.84 to 1.06) 0.307
 Widow(−er) −5.2 (−13.5 to 3.1) 0.217 0.92 (0.80 to 1.06) 0.247
 Family without a registered marriage −2.5 (−14.0 to 9.1) 0.673 1.00 (0.85 to 1.17) 0.963
Employment:
 Employed (ref.) 0 1
 Unemployed −3.0 (−8.8 to 2.7) 0.302 0.97 (0.89 to 1.05) 0.428
Incomes (per month and family person) 1
 Up to 500 litas 0 1
 501 to 1000 litas −3.4 (−9.1 to 2.4) 0.249 0.94 (0.87 to 1.03) 0.174
 More than 1000 litas 1.1 (−7.0 to 9.2) 0.793 1.00 (0.90 to 1.12) 0.992
Nationality:
 Lithuanian 0 1
 Other nationality 1.5 (−5.9 to 8.8) 0.699 1.03 (0.92 to 1.15) 0.634
Size of location:
 Up to 2,000 residents (ref.) 0 1
 2,000–180,000 residents 1.3 (−4.3 to 6.8) 0.659 1.04 (0.96 to 1.12) 0.375
 More than 180,000 residents −3.2 (−9.3 to 2.8) 0.296 0.97 (0.88 to 1.06) 0.481
Survey year:
 2005 (ref.) 0 1
 2012 11.3 (6.2 to 16.5) <0.001 1.16 (1.08 to 1.25) <0.001

PR: prevalence ratio

CI: Wald confidence interval

ref.: reference group

awho said that it is “very important” or “important” that physician ensures confidentiality of adolescent consultation

bdata of surveys in 2005 and 2012 adjusted for gender, age and marital status

11 litas = €0.29

p-values in bold indicate a statistically significant difference