Research Article
Hepatitis B Awareness and Knowledge in Asian Communities in British Columbia
Table 4
Predictors of HBV knowledge from multivariate analysis.
| Characteristics | Odds ratio (95% CI) | value |
| Age | | | 19–24 | 1.8 (0.9–3.5) | 0.084 | 25–39 | 1.7 (1.1–2.7) |
0.022 | 40–54 | 2.0 (1.3–3.0) | 0.001 | 55 | 1.0 | — | | | (trend) = 0.014 | Education | | | Primary/elementary | 0.3 (0.1–0.5) | <0.0001 | Secondary | 0.5 (0.3–0.7) | 0.001 | Postsecondary | 0.7 (0.4–1.1) | 0.116 | University or above | 1.0 | — | | | (trend) < 0.0001 | Ethnicity | | | Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) | 1.0 | — | South Asian | 0.3 (0.2–0.4) | <0.0001 | Filipino | 0.3 (0.2–0.6) | <0.0001 | Korean | 0.3 (0.1–0.5) | <0.0001 | Southeast Asian | 0.3 (0.1–0.6) | 0.001 | Media for health information | | | No | 0.6 (0.4–0.8) | 0.001 | Yes | 1.0 | — | Internet for health information | | | No | 0.6 (0.4–0.9) | 0.024 | Yes | 1.0 | — |
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