Adult Patients’ Satisfaction with Inpatient Nursing Care and Associated Factors in an Ethiopian Referral Hospital, Northeast, Ethiopia

Table 3

Bivariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with adult patients’ satisfaction with nursing care.

Variables	⁢Satisfaction		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	Satisfied	Not satisfied
Sex
Male	64	125	1	1
Female	102	89	2.2 (1.48, 3.39)	2.20 (1.30, 3.73)
Age in years
18–30	87	55	3.7 (1.73, 7.86)	4.77 (1.97, 11.55)
31–40	40	73	1.28 (0.59, 2.79)
41–50	17	37	1.07 (0.44, 2.60)
51–60	10	21	1.11 (0.40, 3.05)
61 and above	12	28	1	1
Residence
Rural	86	131	1
Urban	80	83	1.47 (0.97, 2.21)
Educational status
Illiterate	73	111	1
Below 5th grade	20	25	1.22 (0.63, 2.35)
5th–8th grade	41	53	1.18 (0.71, 1.95)
9th–12th grade	13	16	1.24 (0.56, 2.72)
Certificate and above	19	9	3.21 (1.38, 7.48)
Marital status
Single	60	40	4.09 (1.84, 9.09)
Married	95	144	1.79 (0.86, 3.76)
Divorced or widowed	11	30	1
Occupation
Government employee	16	15	1
Nongovernmental employee	18	14	1.20 (0.45, 3.25)
Farmer	49	79	0.58 (0.26, 1.28)
Merchant	5	12	0.39 (0.11, 1.38)
Unemployed	78	94	0.77 (0.36, 1.67)
Admission ward
Medical	55	108	1	1
Surgical	56	64	1.72 (1.06, 2.79)
Orthopedics	13	15	1.70 (0.76, 3.83)
Gynecology	23	20	2.26 (1.14, 4.46)
Ophthalmology	19	7	5.33 (2.11, 13.45)	9.99 (3.46, 28.78)
Class of admission
First	47	13	2.33 (1.40, 3.88)	2.56 (1.41, 4.67)
Second	119	183	1	1
Self-reported health condition
Poor	78	138	1	1
Good	88	76	2.05 (1.35, 3.09)	2.07 (1.27, 3.37)
Payment for the service
Yes	148	199	1
No	18	15	1.61 (0.79, 3.31)

Statistically significant at value ≤ 0.05
Statistically not significant in backward stepwise logistic regression.