Awareness, Actions, and Predictors of Actions on Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting among Patients Attending a Referral Hospital in Southern Highland Tanzania

Table 4

Binary logistic regression shows predictors of the correct action to be taken when encountering ADR among the study participants.

Variables	COR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value
Sex
Male	0.9 (0.67–1.23)	0.52
Female	1
Age (years)
≤25	0.5 (0.27–0.98)	0.04	0.3 (0.12–0.75)	0.01
26–35	0.6 (0.34–1.04)	0.07	0.6 (0.34–1.14)	0.19
36–45	0.8 (0.49–1.21)	0.26	0.6 (0.34–1.12)	0.58
46–55	0.6 (0.36–0.92)	0.02	0.5 (0.27–0.87)	0.02
56–65	0.5 (0.31–0.84)	0.01	0.4 (0.22–0.75)	<0.01
>65	1		1
Marital status
Married	0.8 (0.61–1.17)	0.31
Not married	1
Occupation
Unemployed	0.7 (0.38–1.14)	0.14	0.4 (0.18–0.87)	0.02
Self-employed	0.7 (0.50–0.96)	0.03	0.5 (0.32–0.83)	0.01
Employed	1		1
Education status
Informal	1.6 (0.85–2.84)	0.15	1.6 (0.74–3.42)	0.24
Primary	1.3 (0.80–2.19)	0.27	0.9 (0.43–1.79)	0.72
Secondary	1.7 (1.10–2.62)	0.02	1.6 (0.90–2.81)	0.11
College/university	1		1
Heard of PV
Yes	1.4 (0.99–1.89)	0.05	1.8 (1.16–2.78)	0.01
No	1		1
Heard of the yellow form
Yes	0.8 (0.49–1.27)	0.32
No	1
Ever suffer ADR
Yes	0.1 (0.08–0.17)	<0.01	0.1 (0.05–0.11)	<0.01
No	1