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

Table 5

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

Characteristics	Crude odds ratio	Adjusted odds ratio	value
Age (years)
<40	0.7 (0.4–1.3)	1.0 (0.6–1.8)	0.24
≥40	Ref.	Ref.
Sex
Male	Ref.	Ref.
Female	2.3 (0.9–9.2)	1.9 (0.8–6.5)	0.62
Level of education
Less than secondary	3.2 (0.7–3.9)	2.9 (0.9–6.3)	0.12
Secondary and above	Ref.	Ref.
Marital status
Single	Ref.	Ref.
Married	1.8 (0.2–9.1)	3.8 (0.9–4.6)	0.23
Length of service (years)
<5 years	Ref.	Ref.
≥5 years	3.2 (1.5–6.5)	2.7 (1.5–5.2)	0.02
Religion
Christianity	1.5 (0.4–3.2)	2.4 (0.3–3.8)	0.25
Islam	Ref.	Ref.
Cadre of occupation
Doctor/nurse	3.7 (0.9–5.6)	0.5 (0.1–2.4)	0.01
CHO/CHEW	1.4 (0.8–9.7)	3.9 (1.3–11.9)
Health assistant	Ref.	Ref.

level of statistical significant.