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	—

Statistically significant at .