Research Article
Hepatitis B Awareness and Knowledge in Asian Communities in British Columbia
Table 5
Predictors of knowledge that HBV may cause cirrhosis from multivariate analysis.
| Characteristics | Odds ratio (95% CI) | value |
| Education | | | Primary/elementary | 0.3 (0.2–0.5) | <0.0001 | Secondary | 0.7 (0.5–1.0) | 0.073 | Postsecondary | 0.7 (0.5–1.0) | 0.039 | University or above | 1.0 | — | | | (trend) < 0.0001 | Ethnicity | | | Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) | 1.0 | — | South Asian | 0.2 (0.2–0.3) | <0.0001 | Filipino | 0.3 (0.2–0.5) | <0.0001 | Korean | 0.4 (0.2–0.8) | <0.0001 | Southeast Asian | 0.1 (0.1–0.3) | 0.001 | Media for health information | | | No | 0.7 (0.5–0.9) | 0.009 | Yes | 1.0 | — | Doctor’s office for health information | | | No | 1.6 (1.2–2.2) | 0.001 | Yes | 1.0 | — |
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