Factors Associated with Problematic Alcohol Consumption among Adults in Putalibazar Municipality of Syangja District, Nepal

Table 5

Factors associated with alcohol consumption among adults in multiple regression analysis (n = 300).

Variables	Practice on alcohol consumption				value	COR	95% CI	AOR	95% CI	value
	Nonproblematic drinkers n = 131 (43.7%)		Problematic drinkers n = 169 (56.3%)
Age	n	%	n	%
15–24 years	22	59.5	15	40.5	0.003	1.5	0.46–4.75	1.8	0.38–8.19	0.47
25–34 years	40	36.7	69	63.3		3.7	1.31–10.60	7.4	1.97–27.60	0.003
35–44 years	26	33.3	52	66.7		4.3	1.48–12.71	5.7	1.58–20.56	0.008
45–54 years	30	52.6	27	47.4		1.9	0.65–5.85	2.5	0.66–9.23	0.18
55–64 years	13	68.4	6	31.6		1		1
Gender	n	%	n	%
Male	70	34	136	66	<0.001	3.6	2.15–6.0	6.9	3.35–14.26	<0.001
Female	61	64.9	33	35.1	1		1
Ethnicity	n	%	n	%
Brahmin	50	61	32	39		0.4	0.11–1.63	0.4	0.08–2.15	0.29
Janajati	73	46.2	85	53.8	<0.001	0.8	0.21–2.86	0.7	0.14–3.31	0.62
Dalit	4	8	46	92		7.7	1.51–38.98	6.9	0.87–53.83	0.07
Kshetri	4	40	6	60		1		1
Occupation	n	%	n	%
Agriculture	14	53.8	12	46.2		0.04	0.005–0.39	0.28	0.02–3.57	0.32
Business	38	45.2	46	54.8		0.06	0.008–0.50	0.2	0.02–2.41	0.21
Government job	17	45.9	20	54.1	0.015	0.06	0.007–0.51	0.2	0.01–2.33	0.19
Private job	26	44.1	33	55.9		0.07	0.008–0.53	1.7	0.01–1.98	0.16
Housewife	10	47.6	11	52.4		0.06	0.007–0.51	0.5	0.04–7.06	0.65
Student	24	52.2	22	47.8		0.05	0.006–0.39	0.2	0.02–2.89	0.26
Tailor	1	14.3	6	85.7		0.3	0.02–5.85	0.1	0.003–1.61	0.09
Bricklayer	1	5	19	95		1		1
Family type	n	%	n	%
Nuclear	85	44.7	105	55.3	0.318	0.6	0.25–1.25
Joint	36	46.2	42	53.8		0.5	0.22–1.27
Extended	10	31.2	22	68.8		1
Education status	n	%	n	%
Illiterate	8	66.7	4	33.3		0.6	0.17–2.47
Nonformal education	11	36.7	19	63.3		2.2	0.87–5.78
Primary level	6	23.1	20	76.8		4.3	1.47–12.79
Lower secondary level	7	30.4	16	69.6	0.077	3.0	1.03–8.60
Secondary level	16	47.1	18	52.9		1.5	0.6–3.56
Higher secondary level	22	41.5	31	58.5		1.8	0.82–4.07
Bachelor level	35	46.1	41	53.9		1.5	0.73–3.18
Masters level	26	56.5	20	43.5		1
Marital status	n	%	n	%
Married	91	43.1	120	56.9	0.367	2.6	0.64–10.83
Unmarried	34	42.5	46	57.5		2.7	0.63–11.59
Widowed	6	66.7	3	33.3		1
Family monthly income (in NPR)	n	%	n	%
≤20,000	19	32.8	39	67.2		3.4	1.42–7.98
21,000–40,000	49	40.8	71	59.2	0.06	2.4	1.12–5.08
41,000–60,000	40	47.1	45	52.9		1.8	0.84–4.07
>60,000	23	62.2	14	37.8		1