Table 4. Factors predicting carabao owners’ willingness to vaccinate their carabaos for schistosomiasis in Barangay Macanip, Leyte, Philippines, where schistosomiasis is endemic (multiple logistic regression)a.
Variable | Odds ratio* | 95% CI | p-value |
---|---|---|---|
Believes that schistosomiasis can be prevented | |||
Yes | 5.24 | 1.20–27.68 | 0.04 |
No | 1.00 | ||
Willing to participate in mass treatment in the future | |||
Yes | 22.12 | 2.12–649.14 | 0.03 |
No | 1.00 |
*adjusted for respondent age, sex, and education level
aonly including those who owned one or more carabaos and who reported willingness to vaccinate (N = 42)