Survey of knowledge and attitude regarding induced abortion among nurses in a tertiary hospital in Thailand after amendment of the abortion act: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Linear regression models of participants’ knowledge of the amended Thai abortion act

Demographics	Knowledge score ranging from 0 to 10 points			Model I^c		Model II^c
Demographics	Mean	Mean difference (95% CI^a)	p-value	Adjusted mean difference (95% CI^a)	p-value	Adjusted mean difference (95% CI^a)	p-value
Age group			< 0.01*		< 0.01*
20–29 years	7.19	Reference
30–39 years		−1.70 (−2.58,-0.82)	< 0.01	−1.62 (−2.47,-0.77)	< 0.01
40–49 years		−1.88 (−2.77,-0.98)	< 0.01	−1.70 (−2.57,-0.83)	< 0.01
more than 50 years		−1.94 (−3.02,-0.87)	< 0.01	−1.72 (− 2.77,-0.68)	< 0.01
Gender			0.75*
Female/ Trans women	5.53	Reference
Others^b		−0.17 (− 1.17,0.84)	0.75
Marital status			0.14*
Single	5.81	Reference
Married or cohabitation		−0.46 (−0.97,0.06)	0.08
Divorced/Widow		0.03 (−0.79,0.84)	0.95
Having Child/Children (%)			0.08*
No	5.79	Reference
Yes		−0.41 (− 0.87,0.05)	0.08
Religion			0.63*
Buddhist	5.59	Reference
Muslim		−0.11 (−0.56,0.34)	0.63
No. of years in practicing as a nurse – years	6.04	−0.03 (− 0.06,-0.01)	0.02*			−0.03 (− 0.06,0.00)	0.03
Department			< 0.01*				* < 0.01
OB-GYN	5.21	1.24 (0.76,1.17)	< 0.01	1.17 (0.70,1.64)	< 0.01	1.20 (0.72,1.67)	< 0.01
Others		Reference
Not defined		−0.90 (−2.07,-0.27)	0.13	−0.93 (−2.08,0.23)	0.12	− 0.92 (−2.08,0.24)	0.12
Experience in taking care of unintended pregnancy or abortions			0.10*
Yes		0.37 (−0.08,0.82)
No	5.38	Reference	< 0.10

^aCI confidence interval
^b Others included sex other than female/transgender women
^c Model I: age group and department, Model II: number of years practicing as nurses and department
* P model

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