Emergency Contraceptives: Knowledge and Practice towards Its Use among Ethiopian Female College Graduating Students

Table 4

Univariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with knowledge of EC among female college graduating students, Harar, eastern Ethiopia, 2016 (N=200).

Variable	Category	Knowledge		COR (95% CI)	P value	AOR (95% CI)	P value
		Good	Poor
Age	≤20	52	441.00			1.00
	>20	88	16	4.65(2.39-9.07)	0.001	6.09(2.89-12.86)	0.001
Marital Status	Unmarried	96	50	1.00		1.00
	Ever married	44	10	2.29(1.06-4.94)	0.034	1.83(0.64-5.26)	0.261
Field of Study	Health	113	40	2.1(1.06-4.12)	0.034	1.87(0.82-4.3)	0.14
	Not Health	27	20	1.00		1.00
Fathers’ Education	Nonliterate	10	16	1.00		1.00
	Literate	130	44	4.73(1.99-11.18)	0.001	3.50(1.12-10.94)	0.031
Mothers’ Education	Nonliterate	16	19	1.00		1.00
	Literate	124	41	3.59(1.69-7.63)	0.001	2.84(1.02-7.88)	0.046

COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.
P value <0.05 indicates statistically significant association.