Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Adult Population towards Blood Donation in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 6
Logistic regression of attitude towards blood donation with sociodemographic characteristics of adult population in Gondar town, 2015.
Variables
Attitude
Total
COR (95% CI)
AOR (95% CI)
Good
Poor
Age
36–40 years
41 (74.5%)
14 (25.5%)
55
1.00
20–25 years
337 (83.8%)
65 (16.2%)
402
1.8 (0.91; 3.43)
26–30 years
183 (78.9%)
49 (21.1%)
232
1.28 (0.64; 2.53)
31–35 years
69 (87.3%)
10 (12.7%)
79
2.36 (0.96; 5.8)
Sex
Female
270 (79.9%)
68 (20.1%)
338
1.00
Male
360 (46.9%)
70 (9.1%)
430
1.3 (0.9; 1.9)
Educational status
Below secondary school
176 (78.2%)
49 (21.8%)
225
1.00
Attend secondary school
159 (84.1%)
30 (15.9%)
189
1.5 (0.9; 2.44)
Attend higher education
295 (83.3%)
59 (16.7%)
354
1.4 (0.91; 2.12)
Occupation
Private employees
10 (71.4%)
4 (28.6%)
14
Students
160 (82.5%)
34 (17.5%)
194
1.90 (0.56; 6.36)
Unemployed
155 (79.9%)
39 (20.1%)
194
1.6 (0.5; 5.34)
Farmers
4 (66.7%)
2 (33.3%)
6
0.8 (0.1; 6.25)
Government employees
163 (83.6%)
32 (16.4%)
195
2.04 (0.60; 6.9)
Own private work
138 (83.6%)
27 (16.4%)
165
2.04 (0.6; 7.0)
Religion
Orthodox Christian
498 (81.8%)
111 (18.2%)
609
1.00
1.00
Muslim
84 (83.2%)
17 (16.2%)
101
1.1 (0.63, 1.92)
1.1 (0.63, 1.92)
Protestant Christian
43 (93.5%)
3 (5.6%)
46
3.2 (0.97, 10.5)
3.2 (0.97, 10.5)
Catholic and Jewish
5 (41.7%)
7 (58.3%)
12
0.16 (0.05, 0.51)
0.16 (0.05, 0.51)
Marital status
Single
408 (82.8%)
85 (17.2%)
493
1.00
Married
174 (82.9%)
36 (17.1%)
210
1.6 (0.51, 5.1)
Divorced
26 (78.8%)
7 (21.2%)
33
1.6 (0.49, 5.28)
Widowed
10 (62.5%)
6 (37.5%)
16
1.2 (0.3, 5.1)
Married but live in separated place
12 (75.0%)
4 (25.0%)
16
0.6 (0.12, 2.54)
Self-perceived health status
Excellent
175 (85.0%)
31 (15.0%)
206
3.0 (1.22, 7.31)
Very good
187 (81.0%)
44 (19.0%)
231
2.25 (0.941, 5.4)
Good
251 (82.3%)
54 (17.7%)
305
2.46 (1.04, 5.81)
Poor
17 (65.4%)
9 (34.6%)
26
1.00
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.
