Predictors of Initiating Hormone Replacement Therapy in Postmenopausal Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Sociodemographic features of women.

Variables		HRT(+)			HRT(-)			P
		% (n=432)			% (n=494)
		NM%	SM%	P	NM%	SM%	P
		(n=244)	(n=188)		(n=376)	(n=118)
Age	45-49	46.7	38.3	0.95	10.6	9.5	0.37	0.017
	50-54	28.3	33.0	0.70	20.0	15.7	0.38	0.023
	55-59	16.8	22.3	0.63	26.3	20.2	0.41	0.264
	60-65	8.2	6.4	0.78	43.1	54.6	0.23	0.001
Women’s Education	Elementary or below	19.6	26.3	0.65	68.1	74.4	0.28	0.024
	Secondary school or above	80.4	73.7	0.44	31.9	25.6	0.38	0.015
Husband’s education	Elementary or below	27.9	26.6	0.85	40.3	36.8	0.84	0.236
	Secondary school or above	72.1	73.4	0.45	59.7	63.2	0.72	0.378
Women’s occupation	Unemployed	13.5	9.1	0.53	66.2	73.4	0.34	0.020
	Public/private sector	51.2	69.5	0.96	14.7	11.7	0.25	0.034
	For own	35.3	21.4	0.45	19.1	14.9	0.23	0.275
Husband’s occupation	Employed	82.1	84.5	0.78	77.2	79.6	0.32	0.346
	Unemployed	17.9	15.5	0.63	22.8	20.4	0.28	0.446
Health insurance	Yes	86.8	83.3	0.73	78.6	80.4	0.30	0.874
	No	13.2	16.7	0.96	21.4	19.6	0.28	0.675
Residence	Village/Town	38.2	23.6	0.46	65.7	68.8	0.32	0.034
	City	61.8	76.4	0.95	34.3	31.2	0.21	0.025
Informed about HRT types	Non-informed	19.4	16.3	0.62	74.5	56.8	0.23	0.005
	Informed	81.6	83.7	0.79	25.5	43.2	0.51	0.036
Knowing problems associated with HRT	Yes	72.2	79.7	0.84	22.5	25.4	0.35	0.021
	No	27.8	20.3	0.56	77.5	74.6	0.30	0.017
Physician affects the HRT	Yes	65.2	76.8	0.89	20.1	23.5	0.36	0.019
	No	34.8	23.2	0.52	79.9	76.5	0.29	0.035
Indications	vasomotor symptoms	73.5	82.4	0.74
	genitourinary syndrome	14.2	9.8	0.69
	osteoporosis	12.3	7.8	0.71
The hospital they applied for	University hospital	60.2	68.2	0.95	25.0	31.3	0.38	0.032
	Private hospital	26.1	21.2	0.87	18.2	25.8	0.43	0.045
	State hospital	13.7	10.6	0.56	56.8	42.9	0.23	0.018
Neighbourhood’s effect	Yes	67.7	44.2	0.05	32.2	23.4	0.22	0.12
	No	22.3	55.8	0.04	67.8	76.6	0.35	0.33