Table 9.

Medical students to be trained in the regional and national referral hospitals

	Regional and national referral hospitals to be used for training		Crude Odds ratio (95%CI)	Adjusted Odds ratio (95%CI)a
Characteristics	Yes preferred N (%)	Not preferred N (%)
Age of participants (Years)
18 – 39	374 (54.8)	86 (50.0)	1.00	1.00
40 – 59	227 (33.2)	64 (37.2)	0.82 (0.57—1.17)	0.81 (0.53—1.25)
≥ 60	82 (12.0)	22(12.8)	0.86 (0.51—1.45)	1.03 (0.54—1.96)
Sex of participant
Male	128 (18.7)	31 (18.0)	1.00	1.00
Female	555 (81.3)	141 (82.0)	0.95 (0.62—1.47)	1.10 (0.67—1.80)
Marital status
Married/cohabiting	461 (67.7)	106 (62.4)	1.00	1.00
Single/never married	75 (11.0)	18 (10.6)	0.96 (0.55—1.67)	1.02 (0.56—1.86)
Separated/divorced	75 (11.0)	21 (12.4)	0.82 (0.48—1.39)	0.77 (0.45—1.33)
Widowed/widower	70 (10.3)	25 (14.7)	0.64 (0.39—1.07)	0.63 (0.34—1.14)
Education attainment
Primary education	265 (39.4)	62 (36.5)	1.00	1.00
Secondary education	220 (32.7)	61 (35.9)	0.84 (0.57—1.25)	0.81 (0.53—1.23)
Tertiary education	78 (11.6)	19 (11.2)	0.96 (0.54—1.70)	0.93 (0.51—1.7)
University	39 (5.8)	7 (4.1)	1.30 (0.56—3.06)	1.06 (0.44—2.56)
No formal education	70 (10.4)	21 (12.4)	0.78 (0.44—1.37)	0.99 (0.54—1.81)
Employment status
No formal employment	235 (34.6)	80 (47.6)	1.00	1.00
Formal employment	445 (65.4)	88 (52.4)	1.72 (1.22—2.43)	1.69 (1.18—2.42)
University hospital
Makerere University	184 (26.9)	97 (56.4)	1.00	1.00
Mbarara University   (MUST)	268 (39.2)	18 (10.5)	7.85 (4.42—13.93)	8.14 (4.5 7—14.50)
Gulu University	231 (33.8)	57 (33.1)	2.14 (1.45—3.14)	2.27 (1.5—3.44)
Specialty
Gynecology	328 (48.0)	87 (50.6)	1.00	1.00
Medical	355 (52.0)	85 (49.4)	1.11 (0.79—1.55)	1.38 (0.87—2.19)

MUST Mbarara University of Science and Technology

^aAdjusted for all factors on table

Bold Factors statistically significant