Table 2 Univariate logistic regressions predicting cervical cancer screening among women in Ghana
From: Factors associated with cervical cancer screening among women of reproductive age in Ghana
Variable | OR (SE) | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|
Education (Reference: No education) | Â | Â |
Primary | 1.100(0.177) | 0.802 1.508 |
Secondary | 1.347(0.161) * | 1.064 1.703 |
Tertiary | 7.219(0.922) *** | 5.619 9.275 |
Current age (Continuous) | 1.047(0.004) *** | 1.038 1.055 |
Wealth (Reference: Poorest) | Â | Â |
Poorer | 1.526(0.247) ** | 1.110 2.096 |
Middle | 2.367(0.362) *** | 1.754 3.196 |
Richer | 3.379(0.500) *** | 2.529 4.516 |
Richest | 6.412(0.902) *** | 4.867 8.448 |
Marital status (Never in a union) | Â | Â |
Married/living with partner | 2.544(0.268) *** | 2.070 3.128 |
Widowed/divorced/separated | 2.569(0.392) *** | 1.905 3.466 |
Religion (Reference: Christianity) | Â | Â |
Islam | 0.804(0.073) * | 0.671 0.962 |
Traditional/spiritualist | 0.125(0.089) ** | 0.031 0.505 |
No religion/other | 0.339(0.153) * | 0.139 0 0.825 |
Ethnicity (Reference: Akan) | Â | Â |
Ga/Dangme | 1.08(0.212) | 0.740 1.594 |
Ewe | 0.983(0.130) | 0.757 1.275 |
Guan | 0.917(0.178) | 0.626 1.343 |
Mole-Dagbani | 1.041(0 0.100) | 0.861 1.259 |
Grusi | 1.026(0.185) | 0.720 1.462 |
Gurma | 0.503(0 0.089) *** | 0.355 0.714 |
Mande | 0.724(0.185) | 0.439 1.195 |
Other | 0.775(0.357) | 0.314 1.912 |
Currently employed (Reference: No) | Â | Â |
Yes | 2.113(0.229) *** | 1.708 2.614 |
Has a valid health insurance (Reference: No) | Â | Â |
Yes | 2.042(0.217) *** | 1.658 2.515 |
Distance to Health facility (Reference: a big problem) | Â | Â |
Not a big problem | 1.570(0.156) *** | 1.292 1.908 |
Visited health facility in the past 12 month (Reference: No) | Â | Â |
Yes | 2.156(0.182) *** | 1.826 2.545 |
Times visited health facility (Reference: None) | Â | Â |
Once | 1.689(0.179) *** | 1.372 2.079 |
More than once | 2.037(0.185) *** | 1.704 2.436 |
Self-rated health (Reference: Bad) | Â | Â |
Good | 1.088(0.105) | 0.899 1.316 |
Frequency of watching television (Reference: not at all) | Â | Â |
Less than once a week | 2.077(0.301) *** | 1.562 2.762 |
At least once a week | 2.980(0.340) *** | 2.383 3.727 |
Frequency of listening to radio (Reference: not at all) | Â | Â |
Less than once a week | 1.536(0.170) *** | 1.234 1.910 |
At least once a week | 2.107(0.199) *** | 1.750 2.537 |
Region of residence (Reference: Western) | Â | Â |
Central | 1.500(0.404) | 0.884 2.546 |
Greater Accra | 1.997(0.517) ** | 1.202 3.318 |
Volta | 2.477(0.637) *** | 1.496 4.102 |
Eastern | 2.424(0.623) *** | 1.464 4.014 |
Ashanti | 2.043(0.516) ** | 1.245 3.352 |
western north | 1.291(0.373) | 0.732 2.276 |
Ahafo | 1.696(0.460) | 0.996 2.886 |
Bono | 1.541(0.426) | 0.896 2.650 |
Bono East | 1.391(0.380) | 0.813 2.377 |
Oti | 1.309(0.366) | 0.756 2.264 |
Northern | 2.518(0.619) *** | 1.555 4.078 |
Savannah | 0.682(0.216) | 0.367 1.270 |
North East | 1.566(0.420) | 0.925 2.652 |
Upper East | 1.840(0 0.480) * | 1.102 3.070 |
Upper West | 1.736(0.459) * | 1.033 2.916 |
Type of place of residence (Urban) | Â | Â |
Rural | 0.452(0.037) *** | 0.384 0.532 |