Table 2.
Socio-demographic characteristics and participation in cervical screening during last 3 years: Logistic regression
| Characteristics | Unscreened n (%) |
Screened n (%) |
Odds ratios | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude (95% CI) |
Adjusted (95% CI) |
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| Age | ||||
| 18–29 year | 172 (92.0) | 15 (8.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 30–39 year | 178 (88.1) | 24 (11.9) | 1.55 (0.79–3.05) | 1.05 (0.48–2.30) |
| 40–49 year | 23 (63.9) | 13 (36.1) | 6.48 (2.74–15.33) | 3.58 (1.21–10.58)* |
| Marital status | ||||
| Single | 70 (93.3) | 5 (6.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Married | 291 (87.4) | 42 (12.6) | 2.02 (0.77–5.29) | 1.44 (0.46–4.55) |
| Divorce or Windowed | 12 (70.6) | 5 (29.4) | 5.83 (1.46–23.25) | 1.52 (0.27–8.46) |
| Educational level | ||||
| Primary and below level | 121 (96.0) | 5 (4.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Secondary and above | 252 (84.3) | 47 (15.7) | 4.51 (1.75–11.64) | 2.71 (0.94–7.79) |
| Occupation | ||||
| Governmental | 85 (90.4) | 9 (9.6) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Self-employed | 135 (83.3) | 27 (16.7) | 1.89 (0.85–4.21) | 2.58 (1.06–6.27)* |
| Housewife | 153 (90.5) | 16 (9.5) | 0.99 (0.42–2.33) | 1.45 (0.56–3.78) |
| Parity | ||||
| Nulliparous | 126 (94.0) | 8 (6.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 1–2 birth | 202 (86.0) | 33 (14.0) | 2.57 (1.15–5.75) | 2.79 (1.05–7.39)* |
| 3 and above | 45 (80.4) | 11 (19.6) | 3.85 (1.46–10.18) | 3.31 (0.94–11.59) |
| Monthly income | ||||
| < 2000 Birr | 221 (94.0) | 14 (6.0) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 2000–3999 Birr | 85 (81.0) | 20 (19.0) | 3.71 (1.79–7.69) | 2.93 (1.32–6.51)* |
| 4000 and above Birr | 67 (78.8) | 18 (21.2) | 4.24 (2.00–8.98) | 2.97 (1.27–6.92)* |
| Residence | ||||
| Urban | 249 (84.1) | 47 (15.9) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Rural | 124 (96.1) | 5 (3.9) | 0.21 (0.08–0.55) | 0.30 (0.11–0.85)* |
*statistically significant at P value < 0.05