Table 3. Factors associated with utilisation of community-based hypertension monitoring.

Variable	Category	Total OR (95% CI)	Urban OR (90% CI)	Rural OR (90% CI)
Urbanity	Rural	1	–	–
	Urban	0.574**	–	–
		(0.451 to 0.732)	–	–
Region	Eastern	1	1	1
	Western	0.674**	0.483**	0.862
		(0.517 to 0.878)	(0.298 to 0.782)	(0.626 to 1.185)
	Central	0.532**	0.366**	0.713
		(0.406 to 0.697)	(0.233 to 0.576)	(0.516 to 0.984)
Marital status	Unmarried	1	1	1
	Married	0.812	0.918	0.770
		(0.632 to 1.043)	(0.582 to 1.448)	(0.580 to 1.023)
Sex	Female	1	1	1
	Male	0.899	0.779	0.963
		(0.751 to 1.076)	(0.578 to 1.051)	(0.775 to 1.196)
Age	45–59	1	1	1
	60–69	0.802	0.692	0.965
		(0.601 to 1.069)	(0.395 to 1.212)	(0.757 to 1.229)
	70–	0.800	0.849	0.802
		(0.598 to 1.071)	(0.509 to 1.417)	(0.600 to 1.073)
Household income	High income	1	1	1
	Poor	1.021	1.160	0.914
		(0.791 to 1.317)	(0.761 to 1.768)	(0.684 to 1.122)
	Near poor	1.150	1.331	0.985
		(0.862 to 0.860)	(0.779 to 2.273)	(0.747 to 1.300)
	Middle income	0.873	0.845	0.852
		(0.680 to 1.122)	(0.562 to 1.271)	(0.631 to 1.149)
Education	Uneducated	1	1	1
	Primary school	0.876	0.807	0.833
		(0.692 to 1.108)	(0.510 to 1.278)	(0.654 to 1.061)
	Junior middle school	0.568**	0.328**	0.842
		(0.424 to 0.761)	(0.213 to 0.571)	(0.596 to 1.189)
	College and above	0.676	0.478**	0.937
		(0.412 to 1.108)	(0.236 to 0.969)	(0.695 to 1.724)
Having medical insurance	Yes	1	1	1
	No	0.608*	0.718	0.558*
		(0.419 to 0.883)	(0.381 to 1.353)	(0.354 to 0.878)
Taking Medicine	Yes	1	1	1
	No	0.296**	0.263**	0.305**
		(0.205 to 0.427)	(0.123 to 0.560)	(0.206 to 0.451)

Notes.

OR = Odds Ratio.

95% CI = 95% Confidence interval for odds ratio.

^*P < 0.05.

^**P < 0.01.