Table 2.
Factors associated with knowledge level of students, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2020
| List of variable | Category of variables |
Knowledge levels | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | |
| Good (%) | Poor (%) | ||||
| Age category | 16–20 | 126(44.4) | 40(32.3) | 1.67(1.07, 2.61) | 1.78(1.07, 2.69)* |
| (in years) | > 20 | 158(55.6) | 84(67.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Residence | Urban | 182(64.1) | 71(57.3) | 1.33(0.86, 2.05) | 1.24(0.77, 1.99) |
| Rural | 102(35.9) | 53(42.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Sex of participants | Females | 154(54.2) | 60(48.4) | 1.26(0.82, 1.93) | 1.18(0.74, 1.89) |
| Males | 130(45.8) | 64(51.6) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Marital status | Single | 253(89.1) | 107(86.3) | 0.77(0.41, 1.45) | 2.30(1.09, 5.55)* |
| Married | 31(10.9) | 17(13.7) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Education | Diploma (TVET) | 146(51.4) | 69(55.6) | 0.84(0.55, 1.29) | 0.64(0.36, 1.12) |
| enrollment type | Degree (first) | 138(48.6) | 55(44.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Program | Regular | 263(92.6) | 114(91.9) | 0.91(0.41, 1.99) | 1.65(0.61, 4.48) |
| Extension | 21(7.4) | 10(8.1) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Field of study | Health related | 160(56.3) | 73(58.9) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Business | 86(30.3) | 43(34.7) | 0.91(0.57, 1.44) | 0.71(0.38, 1.32) | |
| Technology | 38(13.4) | 8(6.5) | 2.17(0.96, 4.87) | 2.60(0.93, 7.25) | |
| Academic year | Year I | 107(37.7) | 44(35.5) | 1.12(0.40, 3.14) | 1.87(0.54, 6.46) |
| Year II | 123(43.3) | 57(46.0) | 0.99(0.36, 2.75) | 2.05(0.58, 7.18) | |
| Year III | 41(14.4) | 17(13.7) | 1.11(0.36, 3.41) | 2.46(0.64, 9.43) | |
| Year IV+ | 13(4.6) | 6(4.8) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Family size | < 5 | 121(42.6) | 77(62.1) | 0.45(0.29, 0.69) | 0.44(0.28, 0.68)* |
| 5+ | 163(57.4) | 47(37.9) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Living with; | Family | 234(82.4) | 106(85.5) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Relatives | 19(6.7) | 9(7.3) | 0.97(0.42, 2.18) | 0.63(0.24,1,67) | |
| Alone | 15(5.3) | 6(4.8) | 1.13(90.43, 3.00) | 1.16(0.34, 3.910 | |
| Others+ | 16(5.6) | 3(2.4) | 2.42(0.69, 8.47) | 3.32(0.79, 13,95) | |
| Monthly income for | < 1000 | 237(83.5) | 112(90.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| education (in ETB) | 1000–1500 | 39(13.7) | 8(6.5) | 2.30(1.04, 5.09) | 3.08(1.36, 6.95)* |
| > 1500 | 8(2.8) | 4(3.2) | 0.94(0.28, 3.21) | 1.27(0.36, 4.41) | |
Key: COR- Crude Odds Ratio, AOR- Adjusted Odds Ratio, * - P-value < 0.05, Others+: friends, sister-in-law and son-in-laws