The Influences of Health Insurance and Access to Information on Prostate Cancer Screening among Men in Dominican Republic

Table 2

Bivariate associations between independent variables and prostate cancer screening.

Prostate cancer testing	OR (95% confidence interval)
Health insurance (ref: no)
Yes	2.12 (1.784–2.512)
Cholesterol knowledge (ref: no)	1.00
Yes	4.20 (3.293–5.359)
Smokes cigarettes (ref: no)	1.00
Yes	0.45 (0.354–0.580)
Received information on prostate cancer prevention (ref: no)	1.00
Yes	1.38 (1.175–1.623)
Education (ref: none)	1.00
Primary	2.02 (1.427–2.863)
Secondary	2.79 (1.923–4.016)
Tertiary and higher	7.27 (4.774–10.536)
Listen to radio (ref: none)	1.00
Often	1.27 (0.864–1.87)
Very often	1.56 (1.106–2.187)
Watch television (ref: none)	1.00
Often	1.48 (0.937–2.367)
Very often	1.97 (1.295–2.941)
Age of respondent (ref: 40–44)	1.00
45–49	1.88 (1.497–2.364)
50–54	2.73 (2.159–3.455)
55–60	4.32 (3.403–5.508)
Marital status (ref: never married)	1.00
Married	4.89 (3.011–7.956)
Separated	2.71 (1.626–4.499)
Religion (ref: Catholic)	1.00
Other Christians	0.94 (0.752–1.176)
No religion	0.69 (0.572–0.838)
Region of residence (ref: 0)	1.00
I	1.07 (0.742–1.535)
II	1.29 (0.908–1.821)
III	1.28 (0.904–1.838)
IV	0.64 (0.429–0.957)
V	0.87 (0.606–1.262)
VI	0.85 (0.588–1.231)
VII	1.18 (0.825–1.694)
VIII	0.95 (0.667–1.367)
Place of residence (ref: urban)	1.00
Rural	0.76 (0.625–0.923)
Wealth (ref: poorer)	1.00
Poor	1.39 (1.069–1.808)
Middle	2.19 (1.700–2.817)
Richer	3.49 (2.708–4.498)
Richest	6.41 (4.918–8.346)

Standard errors in parentheses , .