Research Article
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice regarding HIV/AIDS among People with Disability in Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia
Table 4
Bivariate and multivariate analyses of factors associated with knowledge about HIV/AIDS among disabled people in Hawassa city, southern Ethiopia (
).
| Variables | Knowledgeable | Not knowledgeable | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | value |
| Age | | | | | | 15–19 | 20 | 2 | 0.38 () | | | 20–24 | 68 | 10 | 0.56 () | | | 25–29 | 36 | 18 | 1.92 () | | | 30–34 | 31 | 9 | 1.12 () | | | 35–39 | 15 | 7 | 1.80 () | | | 40 and above | 27 | 7 | 1 | | | Sex | | | | | | Male | 104 | 23 | 1.45 () | | | Female | 93 | 30 | 1 | | | Marital status | | | | | | Married | 92 | 36 | 2.41 () | 2.20 () | 0.013 | Not married | 105 | 17 | 1 | | | Type of disability | | | | | | Deafness | 35 | 4 | 1 | | | Other types of disability | 162 | 49 | 2.65 () | | | Employment | | | | | | Employed | 179 | 41 | 2.91 () | 2.85 () | 0.024 | Unemployed | 18 | 12 | 1 | | |
|
|
Single, divorced, and widowed. Not significant in backward stepwise logistic regression. 1: reference. |