Table 5:

Association between socio-demographic factors and non-adherence to Pap smear screening by Simple Logistic Regression

Variables	SLRa
	Crude OR (95% CI)	p value
Sociodemographic variables
Age	1.00 (0.96,1.04)	0.985
Marital status
Married	1.0
Widow	0.46 (0.09,2.21)	0.329
Duration of marriage	1.01 (0.97,1.06)	0.525
Education level
None/primary	1.0	0.599
Secondary	0.49 (0.06,3.88)	0.501
Tertiary	0.71 (0.08,6.19)	0.760
Occupation	0.93 (0.43,2.03)	0.853
Household income
<RM1000	1.0	0.770
RM1000–RM5000	0.89 (0.41,1.89)	0.735
>RM5000	1.18 (0.22,14.71)	0.577
No. of children	0.98 (0.80,1.20)	0.828
Health Belief Model domains
Perceived severity	0.97 (0.87,1.08)	0.563
Perceived susceptibility	0.89 (0.79,1.01)	0.062
Perceived benefit	0.94 (0.81,1.09)	0.379
Perceived barrier	1.00 (0.95,1.05)	0.956
Cues to action	0.99 (0.98,1.01)	0.553

^aSimple logistic regression