Table 3.
Bivariate analysis of socio-demographic factors associated with TTIs among blood donors in Eastern Ethiopia blood bank service, 2018 (n = 500).
| Variables | Overall sero-prevalence of TTIs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive (%) | Negative (%) | COR (CI) | p-value | ||
| Age group (years) | 18–30 | 19 (6.3) | 283 (93.7) | 0.242 (0.08–0.72) | 0.011 |
| 31–45 | 37 (21.1) | 138 (78.9) | 0.965 (0.34–2.77) | 0.948 | |
| 46–65 | 5 (21.7) | 18 (78.3) | 1 | ||
| Gender | Male | 53 (13.1) | 353 (86.9) | 1.614 (0.74–3.52) | 0.229 |
| Female | 8 (8.5) | 86 (91.5) | 1 | ||
| Occupation | Employed | 6 (4.1) | 141 (95.9) | 0.156 (0.05–0.469) | 0.021 |
| Driver | 10 (20) | 40 (80) | 0.917 (0.33–2.52) | 0.866 | |
| Private | 18 (20) | 72 (80) | 0.917 (0.37–2.26) | 0.850 | |
| Military | 13 (15.3) | 72 (84.7) | 0.662 (0.257–1.702) | 0.392 | |
| Student | 5 (5.8) | 81 (94.2) | 0.226 (0.071–0.726) | 0.012 | |
| Farmer | 9 (21.4) | 33 (78.6) | 1 | ||
| Marital status | Married | 34 (14.8) | 196 (85.2) | 0.751 (0.203–2.78) | 0.669 |
| Single | 24 (9.5) | 230 (90.5) | 0.452 (0.12–1.69) | 0.240 | |
| Divorced | 3 (18.7) | 13 (81.3) | 1 | ||
| Education | No formal | 23 (23) | 77 (77) | 2.92 (1.54–5.54) | 0.001 |
| Primary | 16 (9.8) | 147 (90.2) | 1.064 (0.54–2.09) | 0.858 | |
| Secondary and above | 22 (9.3) | 215 (90.7) | 1 | ||
| Place of residence | Urban | 50 (11.6) | 381 (88.4) | 0.692 (0.34–1.41) | 0.309 |
| Rural | 11 (15.9) | 58 (84.1) | 1 | ||
TTI: transmission-transmittable infection; CI: confidence interval.