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. 2022 Dec 22;10:1074559. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1074559

Table 7.

Stepwise multivariate binary logistic regression results of whether the respondents take the suggestions of medical personnel as an important consideration when purchasing OTC drugs.

Variable β SE Wald χ2 P OR 95% CI (Lower) 95% CI (Upper)
Gender (The control group is male)
Female 0.148 0.062 5.763 0.016 1.160 1.028 1.309
Location within 3 months (The control group is eastern China)
Midwest China 0.142 0.062 5.330 0.021 1.153 1.022 1.300
Chronic disease or not (The control group is No)
Yes −0.265 0.082 10.537 0.001 0.767 0.653 0.900
Agreeableness (The control group is low score group)
High score group 0.511 0.066 59.138 < 0.001 1.668 1.464 1.900
Conscientiousness (The control group is low score group)
High score group 0.290 0.067 18.774 < 0.001 1.336 1.172 1.523
Neuroticism (The control group is low score group)
High score group 0.151 0.075 4.108 0.043 1.163 1.005 1.346
Openness (The control group is low score group)
High score group 0.135 0.069 3.863 0.049 1.145 1.000* 1.310
Health literacy (The control group is low in health literacy)
High 0.271 0.067 16.474 < 0.001 1.312 1.151 1.495
EQ-5D-VAS score (The control group is low score group)
High score group 0.141 0.065 4.777 0.029 1.152 1.015 1.308
NGSES score (The control group is low score group)
High score group 0.285 0.070 16.770 < 0.001 1.330 1.160 1.524

*This value retains three decimal places as other values. The bold values indicate that the value is statistically significant.