Nurses’ Refusal to Report Medication Administration Errors in a Ghanaian Municipality: Uncovering the Barriers with a Quantitative Approach

Table 6

Logistic regression model for sociodemographic factors associated with reporting of medication errors.

Factors	COR (95% CI)	value	AOR (95% CI)	value
Age
20–30 years	Reference		Reference
31–41 years	0.27 (0.13–0.57)	0.001	0.26 (0.12–0.58)	0.001
42–52 years	0.73 (0.13–4.23)	0.723	0.73 (0.11–4.97)	0.749
53 and above	—	—	—	—
Gender
Male	Reference		Reference
Female	0.81	0.572	—	—
Marital status
Single	1.45 (0.23–9.32)	0.695	—	—
Married	3.75 (0.59–23.87)	0.162	—	—
Divorced	—	—	—	—
Others	Reference		Reference
Years of practicing
Less than 1 year	Reference		Reference
1–5 years	0.44 (0.20–0.99)	0.048	1.02 (0.40–2.61)	0.972
6–10 years	0.40 (0.16–1.02)	0.055	2.31 (0.50–10.70)	0.283
11–15 years	—		—
Above 15 years	—		—
Rank
Enrolled nurse	Reference		Reference
Senior enrolled nurse	0.45 (0.14–1.47)	0.187	—	—
Principal enrolled nurse	0.42 (0.08–2.25)	0.308	—	—
Staff nurse	1.07 (0.38–2.97)	0.899	—	—
Senior staff nurse	3.61 (0.67–19.33)	0.134	—	—
Nursing officer	1.35 (0.42–4.35)	0.616	—	—
Senior nursing officer	0.37 (0.08–1.63)	0.189	—	—
Principal nursing officer	0.19 (0.03–1.10)	0.063	—	—

Variables with were empty because there was no observation. Models were adjusted for significant variables. COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.