Table 6.
Predictors of knowledge of COVID-19
| COR | 95% CI for COR | p | AOR | 95% CI for AOR | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower bound | Upper bound | Lower bound | Upper bound | |||||
| Age (y) | ||||||||
| <50 | 0.723 | 0.554 | 0.945 | 0.017* | 0.840 | 0.629 | 1.120 | 0.234 |
| ≥50 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 1.064 | 0.854 | 1.325 | 0.581 | 1.108 | 0.877 | 1.400 | 0.388 |
| Female | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Occupation | ||||||||
| Group 1 | 0.978 | 0.743 | 1.289 | 0.877 | 0.884 | 0.645 | 1.210 | 0.440 |
| Group 2 | 1.334 | 1.031 | 1.726 | 0.028* | 1.393 | 1.069 | 1.815 | 0.014* |
| Group 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Highest level of education | ||||||||
| None | 4.565 | 1.872 | 11.132 | 0.001* | 4.707 | 1.897 | 11.678 | 0.001* |
| Primary | 2.165 | 1.397 | 3.355 | 0.001* | 1.944 | 1.225 | 3.083 | 0.005* |
| Secondary | 0.839 | 0.661 | 1.064 | 0.148 | 0.755 | 0.576 | 0.989 | 0.041* |
| Tertiary | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Location | ||||||||
| Rural | 1.579 | 1.175 | 2.122 | 0.002* | 1.748 | 1.285 | 2.378 | <0.001* |
| Urban | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Abbreviation: COR, Crude Odds Ratio; AOR, Adjusted Odds Ratio.
Group 1 = Senior public servants, professionals, managers, large scale traders, businessmen, contractors, intermediate grade public servants and senior school teachers; Group 2 = Junior school teachers, drivers, artisans, petty traders, laborers, messengers and similar occupational personnel, Group 3 = Unemployed.
*Statistically significant at p<0.05.