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	—

Statistically significant at .