Table 3.
Association of sociodemographic factors with preference for clinician-sampled.
| Sociodemographic Variables | Clinician-Sampled | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted | Adjusted | |||
| OR * (95% IC) | p-Value | OR (95% IC) | p-Value | |
| Education | ||||
| Unschooled/primary education | Ref | Ref | ||
| Secondary education | 1.42 (1.10–1.82) | 0.007 | 1.35 (1.05–1.75) | 0.019 |
| Tertiary education | 3.13 (2.34–4.19) | <0.001 | 2.79 (2.03–3.82) | <0.001 |
| Employment status | ||||
| Unpaid worker * | Ref | Ref | ||
| Lower grade or intermediate occupation **/self-employed | 0.96 (0.76–1.21) | 0.751 | 0.91 (0.72–1.15) | 0.435 |
| Higher grade occupation *** | 2.08 (1.25–3.48) | 0.005 | 1.35 (0.79–2.30) | 0.272 |
| Parity | ||||
| Nulliparous | Ref | Ref | ||
| 1–5 | 0.81 (0.50–1.30) | 0.384 | 1.06 (0.65–1.73) | 0.824 |
| >5 | 0.52 (0.32–0.85) | 0.010 | 0.84 (0.50–1.43) | 0.523 |
| Pregnancy | ||||
| Nulligravida | Ref | |||
| 1–5 | 0.76 (0.41–1.43) | 0.400 | ||
| >5 | 0.53 (0.28–1.00) | 0.051 | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married/in relationship | Ref | |||
| Single/divorced/widowed | 0.97 (0.74–1.28) | 0.840 | ||
Note: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. * housewife or student; ** Lower grade professional, administrative and managerial occupations and higher grade technician and supervisory occupations, *** Large employers, higher grade professional, administrative and managerial occupations.