Cancer Pain Management and Pain Interference with Daily Functioning among Cancer Patients in Gondar University Hospital

Table 3

Relationship between predictive variables and adequacy of cancer pain management at Gondar University Hospital, Gondar, Ethiopia.

Variables	Adequacy of cancer pain management		, value	AOR (95% CI)	value
	Adequate	Inadequate
Gender			1.15, 0.2
Male	17	25		36 (0.36, 3265)	0.12
Female	12	29		1	Rf
Level of education			6.9, 0.069
Illiterate	15	27		1	Rf
Primary school	4	14		0.54 (0.01, 25.1)	0.73
Secondary school	7	3		0.02 (0.00, 4.13)	0.14
College/university	3	10		0.2	0.03
Metastasis			2.85, 0.073
Present	4	15		0.33	0.04
Absent	41	23		1	1
No of all medications (mean)	6.4	5.72	—	0.78 (0.008, 1.77)	0.065
Number of analgesics (mean)	1.03	0.2	—	4.2	0.003
Types of analgesic			29.16,
No analgesics	7	43		1	Rf
Nonopioids ± adjuvant	7	8		2.3 (0.94, 6.55)	0.21
Weak opioids ± nonopioids ± adjuvant	11	3		9.6 (4.11, 19.8	0.005
Strong opioids ± nonopioids ± adjuvant	4	0		23 (0.0, NA)	0.76
Comorbidity			4.39,
Present	2	14		0.24 (0.009, 3.22)	0.4
Absent	27	40		1	Rf
Types of pain ()			5.00, 0.08
Nociceptive pain	5	21		0.439 (0.03, 7.14)	0.56
Neuropathic pain	15	18		6.65 (0.429, 102.9)	0.18
Mixed	6	11		1	Rf
Hx of pain			9.90,
Yes	20	51		0.09 (0.01, 5.11)	0.41
No	9	3		1	Rf

Notes. significant at . significant at ; COD, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; Rf, reference variable.