Table 4.

Factors associated with patients’ recognition of medical students

	Recognizes medical students		Crude Odds ratio	Adjusted Odds ratio (95%CI)a
Characteristics	Yes N (%)	No N (%)
Age of participants (Years)
18 – 39	310 (51.8)	147 (58.3)	1.00	1.00
40 – 59	218 (36.4)	72 (28.6)	1.44 (1.03—2.00)	1.19 (0.80—1.76)
≥ 60	71 (11.9)	33 (13.1)	1.02 (0.65—1.61)	1.01 (0.57—1.8)
Sex of participant
Male	121 (20.2)	38 (15.1)	1.00	1.00
Female	478 (79.8)	214 (84.9)	0.70 (0.47—1.05)	1.04(0.64—1.71)
Marital status
Married/cohabiting	416 (69.7)	147 (58.8)	1.00	1.00
Single/never married	47 (7.9)	46 (18.4)	0.36 (0.23—0.56)	0.32 (0.2—0.53)
Separated/divorced	63 (10.6)	33 (13.2)	0.67 (0.42—1.07)	0.86 (0.53—1.40)
Widowed/widower	71 (11.9)	24 (9.6)	1.05 (0.63—1.72)	1.71 (0.93—3.15)
Education attainment
Primary education	215 (36.5)	111 (44.4)	1.00	1.00
No formal education	53 (9.0)	37 (14.8)	0.74 (0.46- 1.19)	0.67 (0.40—1.13)
Secondary education	206 (35.0)	74 (29.6)	1.44 (1.01—2.04)	1.87 (1.28—2.74)
Tertiary education	76 (12.9)	21 (8.4)	1.86 (1.09—3.20)	2.32 (1.30—4.12)
University	39 (6.6)	7 (2.8)	2.88 (1.24—6.69)	4.15 (1.68—10.23)
Employment status
No formal employment	191 (32.1)	123 (49.2)	1.00	1.00
Formal employment	405 (68.0)	127 (50.8)	2.05 (1.51—2.79)	1.79 (1.30—2.49)
University hospital
Makerere University	164 (27.4)	114 (45.2)	1.00	1.00
Mbarara University (MUST)	203 (33.9)	83 (32.9)	1.70 (1.19—2.41)	1.30 (0.88—1.93)
Gulu University	232 (38.7)	55 (21.8)	2.93 (1.98—4.33)	2.51 (1.67—3.80)
Specialty
Gynecology	274 (45.7)	138 (54.8)	1.00	1.00
Medical	325 (54.3)	114 (45.2)	1.44 (1.07—1.93)	1.36 (0.900—2.05)

MUST  Mbarara University of Science and Technology

^aAdjusted for all factors on table

Bold  Factors statistically significant