Knowledge Gaps and Determination of Attitude and Practice among Medical Students toward Hepatitis B Infection: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study
Table 6
Logistic regression analysis between knowledge, attitude, and practice toward HBV infection among MSs.
Covariates
Knowledge
Attitude
Practice
OR
CI
P-value
OR
CI
-value
OR
CI
value
Age
0.855
(0.726-1.008)
0.062
1.001
(0.855-1.172)
0.991
1.032
(0.880-1.211)
0.697
Gender
NA
1.557
(1.088-2.229)
0.016
NA
Male
Female
Reference
Studying year
3rd year
Reference
Reference
Reference
4th year
1.511
(0.912-2.504)
0.109
1.131
(0.684-1.870)
0.631
0.919
(0.554-1.524)
0.743
5th year
4.433
(2.169-9.062)
≤0.001
1.090
(0.550-2.158)
0.805
1.858
(0.938-3.682)
0.076
6th year
7.589
(3.469-16.601)
≤0.001
1.862
(0.891-3.891)
0.098
2.479
(1.178-5.218)
0.017
Encountered HBV patient
Yes
1.667
(1.114-2.494)
0.013
2.249
(1.517-3.334)
≤0.001
1.262
(0.849-1.878)
0.250
No
Reference
Reference
Reference
Extra courses about HBV
Yes
NA
2.234
(1.174-4.250)
0.014
4.104
(1.983-8.494)
≤0.001
No
Reference
Reference
-value by multivariate logistic regression. Those variables labelled as “NA” were not statistically significant in the Chi-square. Hence, they were not included in this logistic regression. CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio; NA: not applicable.
