Research Article
Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Knowledge on Tuberculosis among Adults in Ethiopia
Table 7
Factors associated with low TB knowledge among Men, Ethiopia 2011, continued.
| Characteristics | Category | Low knowledge (%) | Crude OR (95% CI) | value (crude) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | value (adjusted) |
| Occupation | Professional/technical/managerial | 63 (7.77) | 1 | | | | Not working | 340 (34.94) | 6.38 (4.03, 10.08) | <0.0001 | | | Clerical/sales and services | 403 (24.66) | 3.89 (2.44, 6.19) | <0.0001 | | | Agricultural employee | 3,030 (35.84) | 6.63 (4.42, 9.96) | <0.0001 | | | Skilled manual | 201 (21.01) | 3.16 (1.99, 5.02) | <0.0001 | | | Unskilled manual | 64 (29.98) | 5.08 (2.69, 9.60) | <0.0001 | | |
| Exposure to mass media | Accesses none of the three media at least once a week | 1,096 (50.75) | 2.61 (2.23, 3.05) | <0.0001 | 1.71 (1.54, 1.90) | <0.0001 | Accesses either newspaper, TV, or radio at least once a week | 3,027 (28.31) | 1 | | 1 | |
| Heard of community conversation program | No | 5,203 (42.1) | 2.39 (2.10, 2.71) | <0.0001 | 1.71 (1.57, 1.85) | <0.0001 | Yes | 1,385 (23.35) | 1 | | 1 | |
| Final model fit | Pseudo-, Log Likelihood = −7164.00, LR (17) = 1655.86, |
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