Routine Medical Check-Up and Self-Treatment Practices among Community-Dwelling Living in a Mountainous Area of Northern Vietnam

Table 5

Association between self-treatment and routine medical check-up.

Factors	Self-treatment
	OR	value	95% CI
Routine medical check-up
Yes	Ref
No	6.3	0.00	1.9	21.1
Ethnic
Kinh	Ref
Tay	0.5	0.32	0.2	1.8
Dao	1.3	0.73	0.3	5.9
Muong	0.5	0.34	0.1	1.9
Gender
Male	Ref
Female	1.5	0.37	0.6	3.8
Job
Famer	Ref
Others	1.0	0.96	0.3	3.7
Education
Elementary	Ref
Secondary	2.1	0.37	0.4	10.9
High school and above	2.1	0.40	0.4	12.3
Health insurance
No	Ref
Yes	0.8	0.76	0.1	4.7
Receiving medical information from an acquaintance
No	Ref
Yes	0.5	0.13	0.2	1.3
Receiving medical information from television/radio
No	Ref
Yes	1.1	0.91	0.4	2.6
Receiving medical information from the loudspeaker
No	Ref
Yes	0.7	0.46	0.3	1.8
Receiving medical information from a medical worker
No	Ref
Yes	0.3	0.40	0.0	4.1
Receiving medical information from media network
No	Ref
Yes	2.5	0.55	0.1	46.2
Number of people living in a household	1.2	0.13	0.9	1.5
Number of acute diseases	1.1	0.68	0.8	1.3
Number of chronic diseases	1.0	0.83	0.7	1.4
Distance to the nearest facility (km)	1.0	0.74	0.9	1.1