Table 8.

Factors associated with patients’ disposition as to whether medical students be trained in the tertiary public hospitals

	University teaching hospitals to be autonomous		Crude Odds ratio (95%CI)	Adjusted Odds ratio (95%CI)a
Characteristics	Yes N (%)	No N (%)
Age of participants (Years)
18 – 39	113 (55.7)	347 (53.2)	1.00	1.00
40 – 59	64 (31.5)	227 (34.8)	0.87 (0.61—1.22)	0.82 (0.54—1.23)
≥ 60	26 (12.8)	78 (12.0)	1.02 (0.63—1.67)	0.99 (0.5 5- 1.81)
Sex of participant
Male	42 (20.7)	117 (17.9)	1.00	1.00
Female	161 (79.3)	535 (82.1)	0.84 (0.57—1.24)	0.85 (0.54—1.23)
Marital status
Married/cohabiting	140 (69.3)	427 (65.8)	1.00	1.00
Single/never married	23 (11.39)	70 (10.8)	1.00 (0.60—1.67)	0.85 (0.49- 1.47)
Separated/divorced	18 (8.9)	78 (12.0)	0.70 (0.41—1.22)	0.77 (0.44—1.34)
Widowed/widower	21 (10.4)	74 (11.4)	0.86 (0.51—1.46)	1.05 (0.57—1.93)
Education attainment
Primary education	76 (38.2)	251 (39.0)	1.00	1.00
Secondary education	67 (33.7)	214 (33.3)	1.03 (0.71—1.51)	0.99 (0.67—1.46)
Tertiary education	24 (12.1)	73 (11.4)	1.09 (0.64—1.84)	1.10 (0.64—1.89)
University	16 (8.0)	30 (4.7)	1.76 (0.91—3.42)	1.75 (0.88—3.49)
No formal education	16 (10.8)	75 (11.7)	0.70 (0.39—1.28)	0.7 (0.64—1.89)
Employment status
No formal employment	78 (38.8)	237 (36.6)	1.00	1.00
Formal employment	123 (61.2)	410 (63.4)	0.91 (0.66–1.26)	0.88 (0.62—1.24)
University hospital
Makerere University	83 (40.9)	198 (30.37)	1.00	1.00
Mbarara University (MUST)	33 (16.3)	253 (38.8)	0.31 (0.19—0.49)	0.27 (0.17—0.44)
Gulu University	87 (42.9)	201 (30.8)	1.03 (0.72—1.48)	0.99 (0.67—1.46)
Specialty
Gynecology	96 (47.3)	319 (48.9)	1.00	1.00
Medical	107 (52.7)	333 (51.1)	1.07 (0.78—1.47)	1.15 (0.74—1.76)

MUST Mbarara University of Science and Technology

^aAdjusted for all factors on table

Bold Factors statistically significant