Practice towards Hepatitis B Virus Infection Prevention and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduate Students at Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa, Sidama, Ethiopia, 2021: Cross-Sectional Study

Table 6

Bivariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with practice towards HBV infection prevention among students’ at HUCMHS, Hawassa, Sidama, Ethiopia, 2021.

Variables	Categories	Practice status		COR (95%)	AOR (95%)	value
		Good practice	Poor practice
Age	20-24	156	121	2.279 (1.463-3.549)	2.736 (1.130-6.625)	0.03
	25-29	43	76	1	1
Department	Medicine	96	124	1	1
	PHO	21	15	1.808 (0.885-3.693)	1.031 (0.405-2.623)	0.95
	Nursing	13	18	0.933 (0.436-1.998)	0.390 (0.144-1.060)	0.06
	Midwifery	13	7	2.399 (0.922-6.244)	1.245 (0.396-3.912)	0.70
	Psychiatry	10	5	2.583 (0.855-7.808)	1.458 (0.408-5.208)	0.56
	Anesthesia	11	5	2.842 (0.955-8.453)	1.497 (0.423-5.299)	0.53
	Radiology	11	5	2.842.9558.453	1.128 (0.328-3.871)	0.85
	Optometry	10	4	3.229 (0.983-10.612)	1.497 (0.380-5.896)	0.56
	Medical laboratory	14	14	1.292 (0.588-2.838)	0.530 (0.184-1.529)	0.24
Year of study	Third year	51	41	1	1
	Fourth year	84	56	1.206 (0.708-2.053)	1.302 (0.701-2.418)	0.40
	Fifth year	30	47	0.513 (0.277-0.950)	0.615 (0.241-1.571)	0.31
	Sixth year	34	53	0.516 (0.284-0.935)	1.711 (0.508-5.762)	0.37
Knowledge	Good knowledge	92	64	1.787 (1.188-2.687)	1.990 (1.207-3.282)	0.01
	Poor knowledge	107	133	1	1
Attitude	Favorable attitude	122	100	0.707 (0.475-1.053)	1.001 (0.610-1.642)	0.99
	Unfavorable attitude	79	95	1	1

value < 0.05.