Public Awareness regarding the Differences between Ophthalmologists and Optometrists among Saudi Adults Living in Riyadh: A Quantitative Study

Table 4

Independent predictors of participants’ satisfactory knowledge in the public knowledge toward the differences between ophthalmologists and optometrists among the adult respondents of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2018 () (multivariate analysis).

Variable	Value	OR	95% CI	B	SE
Age	>26	1.73	(1.17–1.19)	0.4	0.125	<0.001
Education	Higher education	1.92	(1.54–2.4)	0.653	0.114	<0.001
Visited optometric	No	0.75	(0.57–0.98)	−0.287	0.137	<0.05
Wearing spectacles	No	0.57	(0.45–0.73)	−0.563	0.125	<0.001

Statistically significant.