Assessment of Asthma Control and Quality of Life among Asthmatic Patients Attending Armed Forces Referral and Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 5

Multivariable logistic regression analysis of factors associated with poor asthma-related quality of life among asthmatic patients attending Armed Forces Referral and Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July-October 2015 ().

Variable	Asthma quality of life		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	value
	Good QoL; (%)	Poor QoL; (%)
Age category
18-34	27 (14.7%)	21 (11.4%)	1.00	1.00
35-64	40 (21.7%)	75 (40.7%)	2.41 (1.21, 4.79)	1.96 (0.71, 5.44)	0.194
≥65	7 (3.8%)	14 (7.6%)	2.57 (0.88, 7.51)	1.55 (0.36, 6.75)	0.557
Gender
Male	33 (17.9%)	71 (38.6%)	1.00	1.00
Female	41 (22.3%)	39 (21.2%)	0.44 (0.24, 0.81)	0.36 (0.16, 0.84)	0.018
Duration of diagnosis
≤14.8 years	47 (25.5%)	42 (22.8%)	1.00	1.00
>14.8 years	27 (14.7%)	68 (37.0%)	2.82 (1.53, 5.19)	2.18 (0.91, 5.20)	0.079
GINA severity
Severe persistent	9 (4.9%)	30 (16.3%)	1.00	1.00
Moderate persistent	12 (6.5%)	42 (22.8%)	1.05 (0.39, 2.81)	1.04 (0.30, 3.63)	0.957
Mild persistent	32 (17.4%)	34 (18.5%)	0.32 (0.13, 0.77)	0.48 (0.14, 1.69)	0.253
Intermittent	21 (11.4%)	4 (2.2%)	0.06 (0.02, 0.21)	0.18 (0.04, 0.86)	0.032
Comorbid illness
Yes	16 (8.7%)	49 (26.6%)	1.00	1.00
No	58 (31.5%)	61 (33.2%)	0.34 (0.18, 0.67)	0.66 (0.24, 1.77)	0.404
Hospital admission in the last 12 months
Yes	8 (4.3%)	31 (16.8%)	1.00	1.00
No	66 (35.9%)	79 (42.9%)	0.31 (0.13, 0.72)	0.53 (0.20, 1.42)	0.203
ICS use
Yes	23 (12.5%)	6 (3.3%)	1.00	1.00
No	51 (27.7%)	104 (56.5%)	7.82 (3.0, 20.39)	1.99 (0.64, 6.24)	0.236
Oral SABA use
Yes	15 (8.1)	60 (32.6%)	1.00	1.00
No	59 (32.1%)	50 (27.2%)	0.21 (0.11, 0.42)	0.39 (0.17, 0.89)	0.026
OCS use
Yes	5 (2.7%)	33 (17.9%)	1.00	1.00
No	69 (37.5%)	77 (41.8%)	0.17 (0.06, 0.46)	0.22 (0.06, 0.73)	0.013

Statistically significant at . COR = crude odds ratio; AOR = adjusted odds ratio.