Factors Influencing Administration, Recognition, and Compliance of Medicine among Community Residents from Jilin Province, China: A Questionnaire Study
Table 4
Multivariate logistic regression on association between selected factors and poor and better CRA, CRR, and CRC.
Variables
Logistic regression analysis
CRA
CRR
CRC
Odds ratio
95% CI
Odds ratio
95% CI
Odds ratio
95% CI
Gender
Male
1
1
1
Female
1.469
1.231–1.753
<0.001
1.100
0.897–1.348
0.361
1.258
1.059–1.495
0.009
Age (years)
0.997
0.990–1.004
0.394
0.987
0.981–0.994
<0.001
1.013
1.005–1.020
0.001
Highest educational level
Primary school
1
1
aNA
Middle school
0.997
0.694–1.432
0.985
0.763
0.528–1.102
0.149
Senior high school or polytechnic
1.437
0.979–2.110
0.064
1.067
0.728–1.564
0.740
Junior college
1.598
1.045–2.444
0.031
1.527
1.006–2.317
0.047
Undergraduate
2.627
1.619–4.263
<0.001
1.505
0.948–2.389
0.043
Occupation
Agricultural worker
1
1
1
Industrial (or skilled) worker
1.249
0.862–1.809
0.240
0.983
0.702–1.376
0.921
1.432
1.003–2.044
0.048
Professional
1.688
1.089–2.617
0.019
1.267
0.847–1.897
0.250
1.814
1.189–2.769
0.006
Service provider
1.506
1.017–2.229
0.041
1.037
0.717–1.501
0.846
1.231
0.843–1.798
0.283
Other
1.398
0.947–2.065
0.092
1.075
0.740–1.561
0.705
1.312
0.895–1.922
0.164
Medical insurance
Medical insurance in urban area
aNA
aNA
1
Urban employees’ medical insurance
1.121
0.918–1.369
0.264
New-style rural cooperative medical care
0.865
0.654–1.144
0.310
Commercial medical insurance
0.591
0.299–1.166
0.129
Private expenses
1.046
0.735–1.489
0.803
Others
1.163
0.590–2.292
0.604
Smoking status
No smoking
aNA
1
aNA
Light smoking ()
0.684
0.518–0.904
0.008
Middle-heavy smoking (PI 200–400)
0.463
0.317–0.676
<0.001
Heavy smoking ()
0.378
0.162–0.885
0.025
Smoking cessation
0.313
0.141–0.694
0.004
Smoking cessation (≥2 years)
0.330
0.115–0.945
0.039
Alcohol consumption status
No drinking
aNA
1
aNA
Heavy drinking
0.664
0.352–1.252
0.206
Medium-heavy drinking
0.854
0.598–1.219
0.384
Light drinking
0.926
0.735–1.167
0.515
Temperance
1.221
0.270–5.518
0.796
Temperance (≥2 years)
0.775
0.054–11.091
0.851
Types of medicines per day
≤2
aNA
aNA
1
2–5
0.961
0.742–1.244
0.761
6–10
0.702
0.320–1.538
0.376
>10
1.934
0.171–21.847
0.594
Number of medications received each time
≤5
aNA
aNA
1
6–10
1.035
0.776–1.382
0.813
11–15
0.814
0.422–1.570
0.538
15
7.436
0.940–58.844
0.057
Self-rated health status
Very good
aNA
1
1
Good
1.081
0.831–1.405
0.563
1.458
1.126–1.888
0.004
Fair
1.219
0.928–1.602
0.154
1.693
1.293–2.217
<0.001
Poor
1.821
1.239–2.678
0.002
2.064
1.377–3.094
<0.001
Very poor
0.779
0.225–2.700
0.694
5.388
1.408–20.612
0.014
Abbreviations: CRA: community residents’ administration of medicine; CRR: community residents’ recognition of medicines; CRC: community residents’ medication compliance; : chi-squared; NA: not applicable.aNo relationship in independent variables from chi-squared () analyses or Fisher’s exact test and Mann-Whitney test.
