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

BMC Women's Health

Table 6 Association between socio-demographic characteristics and attitude

		N (%) with score ≥4¹	Crude OR	95% CI	Adjusted OR²	95% CI
Age, years	10 - 19	23 (35.4)	1.00^*		1.00
	20 - 29	116 (52.3)	2.00	1.13 - 3.54	1.50	0.78 - 2.87
	30 - 39	82 (54.7)	2.20	1.21 - 4.02	1.74	0.84 - 3.57
	40 - 49	30 (56.6)	2.38	1.31 - 5.01	2.00	0.85 - 4.72
	50 - 59	15 (68.2)	3.91	1.40 - 10.97	2.57	0.80 - 8.25
	60 - 69	4 (57.1)	2.43	0.50 - 11.83	0.87	0.15 - 5.13
	70 -79	2 (40.0)	1.22	0.19 - 7.82	0.34	0.03 - 3.88
Residence	Centre	136 (60.7)	1.00^**		1.00
	East	27 (36.0)	0.36	0.21 - 0.63	0.49^**	0.27 - 0.86
	West	34 (45.3)	0.54	0.32 - 0.91	0.64	0.37 - 1.12
	South	32 (42.7)	0.48	0.28 - 0.82	0.48^**	0.27 - 0.85
	North	43 (57.3)	0.87	0.51 - 1.48	0.72	0.41 - 1.27
Marital status	Married	112 (55.4)	1.00
	Single	135 (48.2)	0.75	0.52 - 1.08
	Widowed	9 (52.9)	0.9	0.34 - 2.44
	Divorced	11 (61.1)	1.26	0.47 - 3.39
Education	No school/primary	52 (49.5)	1.00^**		1.00
	Secondary	143 (47.4)	0.92	0.59 - 1.43	1.01	0.61 - 1.65
	Higher	72 (64.3)	1.83	1.07 - 3.16	1.57	0.78 - 3.14
Occupation	Non-formal income	146 (48.8)	1.00		1.00
	Student	64 (52.0)	1.14	0.75 - 1.73	0.93	0.52 - 1.68
	Formal income	59 (60.2)	1.59	1.00 - 2.52	1.30	0.78 - 2.17
Religion	Catholic	95 (63.8)	1.00^**		1.00
	Protestant	35 (53.0)	0.64	0.36 - 1.15	0.68	0.37 - 1.27
	Other	142 (46.3)	0.49	0.33 - 0.73	0.55^**	0.35 - 0.86
Parity	0 births	58 (47.5)	1.00^*
	1 to 2 births	71 (47.3)	0.99	0.61 - 1.60
	3 or more births	94 (58.0)	1.53	0.95 - 2.45

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 attitude, e.g. out of 65 women aged 10 to 19 years, 23 (35.4%) had a score of ≥4 points.
²Adjusted OR: odds ratio by multiple logistic regression (variables in the model: age, residence, education, occupation, and religion).