Proportion and Associated Factors of Low Vision among Adult Patients Attending at University of Gondar Tertiary Eye Care and Training Center, Gondar Town, Ethiopia

Table 4

Factors associated with low vision among adult patients attending the University of Gondar tertiary eye care and training center, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 715).

Variables	Low vision			AOR (95% CI)
	Yes	No	COR (95% CI)
Age (years)
≤40	39	233	1.00	1.00
40–49	17	46	2.21 (1.15, 4.24)	1.35 (0.67, 2.76)
50–59	41	54	4.54 (2.67, 7.70)	2.27 (1.22, 4.22)
60–69	65	58	6.70 (4.10, 10.93)	3.25 (1.80, 5.87)
≥70	93	39	8.05 (5.08, 12.76)	3.96 (2.21, 7.10)
Sex
Male	135	286	1.00	1.00
Female	120	174	1.46 (1.07, 1.99)	1.58 (1.10, 2.28)
Residence
Rural	167	203	2.40 (1.75, 3.30)	0.96 (0.64, 1.45)
Urban	88	257	1.00	1.00
Marital status (currently)
Single	42	147	0.42 (0.29, 0.62)	0.87 (0.54, 1.40)
Married	213	313	1.00	1.00
Education
No formal education	215	226	5.57 (3.79, 8.17)	2.24 (1.25, 4.02)
Formal education	40	234	1.00	1.00
Occupation
Farmer	118	141	5.34 (2.98, 9.54)	1.31 (0.52, 3.30)
Housewife	69	66	6.67 (3.57, 12.46)	1.81 (0.70, 4.73)
Retired	24	18	8.50 (3.79, 19.05)	2.29 (0.80, 6.52)
Student	10	17	0.83 (0.36, 193)	1.40 (0.50, 4.00)
Others	18	56	2.05 (0.97, 4.33)	1.04 (0.43, 2.57)
Government employer	16	102	1.00	1.00
Monthly income (Ethiopian birr)
≤1000	106	155	2.93 (1.85, 4.63)	0.99 (0.55, 1.76)
1001–1500	65	92	3.03 (1.84, 4.99)	0.97 (0.53, 1.77)
1501–2500	52	76	2.93 (1.74, 4.94)	1.05 (0.57, 1.95)
>2500	32	137	1.00	1.00
History of cataract surgery
Yes	55	28	4.24 (2.61, 6.89)	2.58 (1.53, 4.36)
No	197	429	1.00	1.00

Nonsignificant, , and . CI, confidence interval; COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio.