Knowledge, attitude and practice about cancer of the uterine cervix among women living in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo

Table 5 Association between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge

		N (%) with score ≥6¹	Crude OR	95% CI	Adjusted OR²	95% CI
Age, years	10 – 19	18 (27.7)	1.00^**		1.00
	20 – 29	80 (36.0)	1.47	0.80 - 2.70	0.56	0.26 - 1.22
	30 – 39	80 (53.3)	2.98	1.59 - 5.61	1.52	0.62 - 3.71
	40 – 49	28 (52.8)	2.92	1.36 - 6.29	1.33	0.46 - 3.86
	50 – 59	13 (59.1)	3.77	1.38 - 10.34	1.56	0.39 - 6.27
	60 – 69	4 (57.1)	3.48	0.71 - 17.11	1.19	0.17 - 8.62
	70 – 79	2 (40.0)	1.74	0.27 - 11.29	2.53	0.22 - 28.54
Residence	Centre	109 (48.7)	1.00^***		1.00
	East	18 (24.0)	0.33	0.18 - 0.60	0.47^**	0.24 - 0.90
	West	16 (21.3)	0.29	0.16 - 0.53	0.27^***	0.13 - 0.55
	South	45 (60.0)	1.58	0.93 - 2.69	2.13^**	1.14 - 3.99
	North	37 (49.3)	1.03	0.61 - 1.73	0.51^**	0.27 - 0.96
Marital status	Married	101 (50.0)	1.00^**		1.00
	Single	105 (37.5)	0.60	0.42 - 0.87	0.44^**	0.24 - 0.81
	Widowed	10 (58.8)	1.43	0.52 - 3.90	1.23	0.33 - 4.50
	Divorced	6 (33.3)	0.50	0.18 - 1.38	0.50	0.15 - 1.69
Education	No school/primary	38 (36.2)	1.00^***		1.00
	Secondary	104 (34.4)	0.93	0.58 - 1.47	1.15	0.65 - 2.01
	Higher	80 (71.4)	4.41	2.49 - 7.81	7.65^***	3.31 - 17.66
Occupation	Non-formal income	105 (35.1)	1.00^***		1.00
	Student	57 (46.3)	1.60	1.04 - 2.44	1.60	0.79 - 3.26
	Formal income	62 (63.3)	3.18	1.98 - 5.11	3.35^***	1.85 - 6.09
Religion	Catholic	76 (51.0)	1.00^**		1.00
	Protestant	37 (56.1)	1.23	0.68 - 2.19	1.40	0.70 - 2.81
	Other	111 (36.2)	0.54	0.37 - 0.81	0.93	0.57 - 1.51
Parity	0 births	42 (34.4)	1.00^**
	1 to 2 births	54 (36.0)	1.07	0.65 - 1.77
	3 or more births	78 (48.1)	1.77	1.09 - 2.87

OR: odds ratio; crude OR: odds ratio by bivariate analysis.
95% CI: confidence interval at the 95% level.
^*: 0.05 ≤ p < 0.2; ^**: 0.001 ≤ p < 0,05; ^***: p < 0.001.
¹Absolute number and proportion of women belonging to a specific category who got a sufficient score on knowledge, e.g. out of 65 women aged 10 to 19 years, 18 (27.7%) had a score of ≥6 points.
²Adjusted OR: odds ratio by multiple logistic regression (variables in the model: age, residence, marital status, education, occupation, and religion).

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