Table 7.

Predictive factors for higher levels of knowledge

Factor	Vienna centre (n = 110)		Moscow centre (n = 95)
	Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval	Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval
Age	0.99	0.96 – 1.01	0.99	0.95 – 1.03
Marital status	0.49	0.17 – 1.35	0.74	0.32 – 1.71
Level of education
Secondary school	0.55	0.27 – 1.09	0.29	0.10 – 0.77
Undergraduate	2.00	0.95 – 4.29	1.23	0.52 – 2.89
Graduate school	1.10	0.40 – 4.05	1.78	0.85 – 3.78
Menopausal status	1.19	0.54 – 2.68	1.25	0.44 – 3.49
Parity	0.85	0.62 – 1.17	1.08	0.62 – 1.89
Sexually active/inactive	1.83	0.92 – 3.67	2.65	1.10 – 6.49
Severity of POP symptoms	1.24	0.86 – 1.80	0.88	0.56 – 1.38
Previous consulting visits	1.39	0.89 – 2.21	1.01	0.63 – 1.64
Previous POP treatment	1.44	0.73 – 2.86	1.44	0.69 – 3.03
Duration of POP symptoms	1.01	0.96 – 1.05	0.98	0.95 – 1.02
Household income	1.62	0.95 – 2.83	1.49	0.77 – 2.98
Stronger information-seeking preferences	1.36	1.03 – 1.82	1.08	0.80 – 1.46
Patient’s trust in physician	0.69	0.52 – 0.89	0.70	0.51 – 0.90
Sources of information about POP
Family and friends	2.31	1.07 – 5.07	1.59	0.48 – 5.43
General practitioner	1.25	0.57 – 2.76	0.21	0.06 – 0.65
Gynaecologist	1.72	0.79 – 3.78	2.89	1.07 – 8.28
Newspapers and magazines	4.25	1.69 – 11.18	6.56	3.05 – 24.44
Radio and television	4.05	0.92 – 21.31	1.42	0.28 – 7.32
Internet	4.67	1.77 – 11.42	5.12	2.06 – 13.26

Odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals were extracted from the ordinal logistic regression model

If the confidence interval contains the relative risk of 1.00, the factor is not significantly predictive of the knowledge score; if the confidence interval is less than 1.00, the factor is significantly predictive of a decreases in score, and if more than 1.00 is significantly predictive of an increase in the score