Table 4.

Bivariate and Multivariate results of factors associated with conducting cervical cancer screening by health workers from rural HC III & IV, northern Uganda. N = 286

	Total, N = 286	COR	95 % CI	p-value	AOR	95 % CI	p-value
Variables
Health workers’ health centre level (n = 286)
Health centre level IV	64 (22)	1			1
Health centre level III	222 (78)	0.23	0.12–0.44	0.00	0.30	0.13–0.68	0.00
Age groups of health workers (n = 280)
21–35	167 (60)	1			1
36–57	113 (40)	2.54	1.35–4.76	0.00	1.05	0.34–3.23	0.94
Sex of health workers (n = 286)
Females	188(66)	1			1
Males	98 (34)	1.3	0.70–2.42	0.41	1.03	0.40–2.65	0.96
Qualifications of health workers (n = 286)
Nurse	153 (54)	1			1
Midwife	81 (28)	0.89	0.42–1.88	0.76	1.13	0.42–3.04	0.80
Clinical officer	52 (18)	1.89	0.89–3.98	0.10	1.66	0.59–4.65	0.33
Numbers of years working (n = 281)
1–10 years	192 (68)	1			1
11–38 years	89 (32)	2.76	1.48–5.13	0.00	2.27	0.72–7.14	0.16
Health workers trained to screen for cervical cancer (n = 283)
No	190 (67)	1			1
Yes	93 (33)	2.68	1.44–5.00	0.00	2.21	1.00 -4.90	0.05
HC has an Organisation that support cervical cancer screening (n = 274)
No	170 (62)	1			1
Yes	104 (38)	4.59	2.34–9.01	0.00	4.38	1.99–9.63	0.00
HC has guidelines for cervical cancer screening (n = 281)
No	223 (79)	1			1
Yes	58 (21)	4.26	2.20–8.25	0.00	2.89	1.22–6.86	0.02
Health workers’ aware of age group for cervical cancer screening using VIA (n = 279)
No	108 (39)	1			1
Yes	171 (61)	2.29	1.13–4.60	0.02	1.57	0.60–4.08	0.36

Bolded figures indicate statistically significant variables at p ≤ 0.05 at multivariate analysis. Our final model was checked using Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test to see whether it fit perfectly well. The p-value of 0.99 from the Hosmer-Lemeshow’s goodness-of-fit test is an indicator that our model fitted the data well

COR Crude Odds Ratio, AOR Adjusted Odds Ratio