Perceived Stigma and Associated Factors among People with Schizophrenia at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Institution Based Study

Table 4

Factors associated with perceived stigma (bivariate and multivariate) analysis, at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, 2012.

Explanatory variables	Perceived stigma		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)
	High	Low
Education
Not able to read and write	27	13	2.93 (1.325, 6.488)	2.64 (1.118, 6.227)
Primary	143	146	1.38 (0.842, 2.271)
Secondary and above	34	48	1	1
Employment
Unemployed	135	122	1.36 (1.213, 4.036)	*
Employed	69	85	1
Residence
Rural	51	38	1.48 (1.323, 5.38)	*
Urban	153	169	1	1
Difficulty of adherence to antipsychotic medication
Yes	43	21	2.37 (1.347, 4.153)	4.49 (2.309, 8.732)
No	161	186	1	1
Duration of illness
>1 year	81	126	1	1
≤1 year	131	73	2.79 (1.872, 4.164)	3.48 (2.238, 5.422)

Note: *not statistically significant using forward stepwise regression methods. Hosmer and Lemeshow test was 0.191.