Table 5.
Multivariable logistic regression of the determinant factors of religious help-seeking behavior of schizophrenia among Gondar Zuria district adults, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021 (n = 423).
| Variables | Religious help |
AOR (95%CI) | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes frequency (%) | No Frequency (%) | |||||
| Age | 18–24 years | 140 (93.33) | 10 (6.67) | 3.79 (0.76,18.72) | 0.10 | |
| 25–44years | 184 (91.09) | 18 (8.91) | 2.57 (0.93,7.13) | 0.06 | ||
| 45 and above | 60 (84.51) | 11 (15.49) | 1 | |||
| Level of education | Illiterate | 89 (92.71) | 7 (7.29 | 0.33 (0.06,1.62) | ||
| Primary | 61 (83.56) | 12 (16.44) | 0.17 (0.04,0.76) | 0.01∗ | ||
| Secondary | 110 (99.10) | 1 (0.90) | 4.77 (0.49,46.08) | 0.17 | ||
| Diploma | 59 (86.76) | 9 (13.24) | 0.41 (0.13,1.26) | 0.12 | ||
| BSc& above | 65 (86.67) | 10 (13.33) | 1 | |||
| occupation | Farmer/housewife | 79 (94.05) | 5 (5.95) | 1 | ||
| Employee | 75 (82.42) | 16 (17.58) | 0.12 (0.02,0.64) | 0.01∗ | ||
| Student | 119 (92.97) | 9 (7.03) | 0.26 (0.04,1.83) | 0.18 | ||
| Unemployed | 27 (90.00) | 3 (10.00) | 0.14 (0.02,1.08) | 0.06 | ||
| Merchant | 84 (93.33) | 6 (6.67) | 0.96 (0.23,4.01) | 0.96 | ||
| Biological cause | Yes | 270 (90.91) | 27 (9.09) | 1.31 (0.55,3.04) | 0.54 | |
| No | 114 (90.48) | 12 (9.52) | 1 | |||
| Religious cause | Yes | 248 (94.30) | 15 (5.70) | 2.34 (1.06,5.11) | 0.03∗ | |
| No | 136 (85.00) | 24 (15.00) | 1 | |||
| Social issue causes | Yes | 254 (90.07) | 28 (9.93) | 0.74 (0.34,1.63) | 0.34 | |
| No | 130 (92.20) | 11 (7.80) | 1 | |||
Note: ∗statistically significant at p value <0.05.