Practice on Metered Dose Inhaler Techniques and Its Associated Factors among Asthmatic Patients at Debre Markos Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, East Gojjam, Ethiopia: A Prospective Study

Table 4

Factors associated with practices towards MDI use in DMCSH, 2020.

Variables	Practice		Cor, 95% CI	value	AOR, 95% CI	value
	Good	Poor
Sex
Male	51	28	1.00
Female	57	30	0.959 (0.506, 1.816)	0.897
Marital Status
Single	13	6	0.4 (0.13–1.2)	0.116	0.196 (0.05–0.8)	0.012
Married	66	27	0.36 (0.174–0.74)	0.006	0.3	0.45
Divorced	7	0	0.000	0.99	0.00	0.00
Widowed	22	25	1
Occupation
Government	26	2	1
Private	36	29	0.01 (0.694–2.7)	0.009	1.9	0.5
Others	46	27	0.13 (0.03–0.6)	0.01	1.75
Residency
Urban	65	20	1.00		1.00
Rural	43	38	0.35 (0.18–0.7)	0.002	2.4 (0.7–7.8)	0.14
Knowledge
Good knowledge	91	20	1.00		1.00
Poor knowledge	17	38	10 (4.8, 21.5)	<0.001	12 (4.5, 31.9)	<0.001