Factors associated with health services financier among temporary sheltered homeless in urban Malaysia

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Table 3 Factors associated with using own money for health services among homeless (multiple logistic regression)

Variable	Regression coefficient (b)	Std error	Wald Z value	Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)	p-value
Age
Early adulthood	0.037	0.466	0.006	1.04 (0.42–2.59)	0.937
Middle-late adulthood	0				0.937
Gender
Male	0.73	0.742	0.977	2.08 (0.48–8.92)	0.323
Female	0				0.323
Marital status
Single	−0.140	0.491	0.082	0.87 (0.33–2.27)	0.775
Married	0				0.775
Education level	1.147	0.549	4.361	3.15 (1.07–9.25)	0.037*
Low	0
Middle-high
Working status	0.572	0.501	1.301	1.77 (0.66–4.73)	0.254
Working	0
Not working
Income
With	−2.46	0.559	19.416	0.08 (0.029–3.07)	< 0.001*
Without	0				< 0.001*
Smoking
Yes	−0.13	0.638	0.040	0.88 (0.25–3..07)	0.841
No	0				0.841
Took Alcohol
Yes	−1.11	0.794	1.956	0.33 (0.69–1.56)	0.162
No	0				0.162
Took drugs
Yes	0.221	0.543	0.166	1.25 (0.43–3.62)	0.684
No	0				0.684
Disease
Have	−0.437	0.482	0.820	0.65 (0.25–1.66)	0.365
No	0				0.365
Disability
Have	−3.012	1.473	4.183	0.05 (0.003–0.88)	0.041*
No	0				0.041*

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