Awareness, Practices, and Demands of Traditional Medicine Providers for Continuous Medical Education in District Hospitals of Vietnam

Table 5

Factors associated with awareness, practice, and demand for TM CME.

Characteristics	Heard about TM CME	Participated in TM CME in the last five years	Had demands on TM CME
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Age	0.9 (0.9–1.1)	1.1 (1.0–1.2)	0.9 (0.8–1.0)
Gender
Female	1	1	1
Male	0.9 (0.3–2.2)	1.1 (0.6–1.9)	0.6 (0.3–1.5)
Ethnic
Kinh	1	1	1
Others	0.2 (0.1–0.8)	0.5 (0.2–1.6)	1.4 (0.3–6.4)
Education
Vocational training	1	1	1
College	14.1 (1.0–195.9)	0.5 (0.1–2.3)	0.4 (0.1–3.5)
Undergraduate	9.1 (1.9–44.6)	0.6 (0.2–1.6)	2.2 (0.6–8.0)
Postgraduate	-	0.9 (0.2–3.6)	3.8 (0.7–21.4)
Professionals
Traditional medicine physicians	1	1	1
Bachelor of nurse	0.6 (0.0–7.4)	1.3 (0.2–8.1)	7.9 (0.6–3.5)
Practical nurse	3.7 (0.7–19.8)	1.8 (0.5–6.7)	4.6 (0.7–8.0)
Assistant physicians	5.7 (1.2–26.7)	0.6 (0.2–2.0)	4.1 (0.9–18.6)
Others	3.9 (0.7–21.9)	1.1 (0.4–3.0)	0.8 (0.2–2.9)
Years of experience (years)	0.9 (0.8–1.1)	0.9 (0.8–0.9)	1.0 (0.9–1.1)
Type of contract
Permanent	1	1	1
Temporary	0.2 (0.1–0.7)	0.7 (0.4–1.4)	0.4 (0.1–1.1)
Others	0.1 (0.0–2.2)	0.9 (0.0–4.4)	-
Update professional knowledge frequently
No	1	1	1
Yes	7.7 (2.8–21.7)	2.4 (0.9–6.1)	3.7 (1.2–11.5)
Ever heard about TM CME
No		1	1
Yes		6.9 (2.5–18.8)	1.9 (0.6–6.8)
Participate in TM CME in the last five years
No			1
Yes			0.9 (0.3–2.2)

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