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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Nurs Stud. 2012 Mar 3;49(7):834–841. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.02.006

Table 5.

Experience with rural area and odds of willingness to work in a deprived area for midwifery students in Ghana.

% Answering yes Unadjusted odds ratio 95% Confidence interval
Born in a rural place 8.6% 1.95 (0.736, 5.16)
Lived in a rural area after age 5 for a year or more 32.7% 1.52 (0.857, 2.70)
Currently lives in a rural place 3.7% 1.49 (0.363, 6.14)
As a nursing student did work in a deprived area for 6 or more weeks 27.1% 0.83 (0.449, 1.55)
Under obligation to return to work in a rural area 3.8% 10.8 (1.30, 89.1)
Under obligation to return to work in a rural or peri-urban area 6.6% 2.75 (0.887, 8.50)