Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Adult Population towards Blood Donation in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 5
Logistic regression of knowledge towards blood donation with sociodemographic characteristics of adult population in Gondar town, 2015.
Variables
Knowledge status
Total
COR (95% CI)
AOR (95% CI)
Adequate knowledge
Inadequate knowledge
Age
20–25 years
244 (60.7%)
158 (39.3%)
402
1.5 (1.06, 2.03)
26–30 years
119 (51.3%)
113 (48.7%)
232
1.00
31–35 years
49 (62.0%)
30 (38.0%)
79
1.55 (0.92, 2.62)
36–40 years
24 (43.6%)
31 (56.4%)
55
0.74 (0.41, 1.33)
Sex
Female
189 (55.9%)
149 (44.1%)
338
1.00
Male
247 (57.4%)
183 (42.6%)
430
1.1 (0.8, 1.42)
Educational status
Below secondary school
88 (39.1%)
137 (60.9%)
225
1.00
Attend secondary school
112 (59.3%)
77 (40.7%)
189
2.26 (1.53, 3.36)
2.28 (1.51, 3.44)
Attend higher education
236 (66.7%)
118 (33.3%)
354
3.11 (2.2, 4.41)
2.88 (2.01, 4.12)
Occupation
Private employees
7 (50.0%)
7 (50.0%)
14
1.00
Students
118 (60.8%)
76 (39.2%)
194
1.24 (0.42, 3.73)
Unemployed
89 (45.9%)
105 (54.1%)
194
0.75 (0.25, 2.24)
Farmers
0
6 (100%)
6
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Government employees
139 (71.3%)
56 (28.7%)
195
2.73 (0.9, 8.31)
Own private work
83 (50.3%)
82 (49.7%)
165
1.04 (0.35, 3.14)
Religion
Orthodox Christian
348 (57.1%)
261 (42.9%)
609
1.00
Muslim
52 (51.5%)
49 (48.5%)
101
0.8 (0.52, 1.21)
Protestant Christian
27 (58.7%)
19 (41.3%)
46
1.1 (0.6, 1.96)
Catholic and Jewish
9 (75.0%)
3 (25.0%)
12
2.25 (0.6, 8.4)
Marital status
Single
280 (56.8%)
213 (43.2%)
493
1.00
Married
127 (60.5%)
83 (39.5%)
210
1.16 (0.84, 1.62)
Divorced
12 (36.4%)
21 (63.6%)
33
0.44 (0.21, 0.9)
Widowed
6 (37.5%)
10 (62.5%)
16
0.46 (0.2, 1.28)
Married but live in separated place
11 (68.8%)
5 (31.2%)
16
1.67 (0.57, 4.9)
Self-perceived health status
Excellent
130 (63.1%)
76 (36.9%)
206
1.61 (1.12, 2.31)
Very good
135 (58.4%)
96 (41.6%)
231
1.33 (0.94, 1.87)
Good
157 (51.5%)
148 (48.5%)
305
1.00
Poor
14 (53.8%)
12 (46.2%)
26
1.1 (0.49, 2.45)
indicates significance in bivariate but not in multivariate logistic regression analysis, and indicates significant variable with value less than 0.05 in multivariate logistic regression analysis.
