Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS: Perception of Health Care Workers in Rural Areas of Oyo State

Table 4

Association between background characteristics of respondents and good knowledge of PMTCT of HIV/AIDS.

Characteristics	Crude odds ratio	Adjusted odds ratio	value
Age (years)
<40	5.7 (0.4–5.3)	2.3 (0.3–14.0)	0.30
≥40	Ref.
Sex
Male	Ref.	Ref.
Female	3.1 (1.6–7.5)	1.6 (0.9–7.9)	0.12
Level of education
Less than secondary	6.3 (0.7–11.9)	4.3 (0.7–7.5)	0.67
Secondary and above	Ref.	Ref.
Marital status
Single	Ref.	Ref.
Married	3.9 (0.8–4.6)	2.9 (0.4–4.0)	0.27
Religion
Christianity	2.1 (1.1–4.8)	1.6 (1.3–7.8)	0.01
Islam (ref.)	Ref.
Cadre of occupation
Doctor/nurse	10.8 (2.7–43.6)	10.2 (3.0–35.1)	0.00
CHO/CHEW	0.4 (0.3–2.5)	0.9 (0.2–4.1)
Health assistant	Ref.	Ref.
Time spent in current hospital
<5 years	Ref.	Ref.
≥5 years	0.9 (0.3–2.9)	4.3 (2.3–19.4)	0.00

level of statistical significant.