Awareness of HIV/AIDS and its routes of transmission as well as access to health knowledge among rural residents in Western China: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Logistic regression results of HIV awareness among rural residents in western China (N = 9274)

Variables	OR	95% CI		p value
Variables	OR	Lower	Upper	p value
Social-demographic variables
Age
16–40	1
41–60	0.533	0.462	0.615	< 0.001
Above 60	0.395	0.329	0.474	< 0.001
Education
Illiterate	1
Primary	1.340	1.137	1.579	< 0.001
Secondary	2.275	1.903	2.720	< 0.001
Tertiary	4.519	3.130	6.525	< 0.001
Occupation
Farmer	1
Migrant worker	1.137	0.928	1.394	0.215
Salary employee	1.346	1.017	1.783	0.038
Student	2.469	1.455	4.188	0.001
Others	1.349	1.093	1.666	0.005
Unemployed individuals	1.315	1.072	1.614	0.009
Personal monthly income
No income	1
Less than 2000 yuan	1.449	1.254	1.764	< 0.001
2000–4000 yuan	1.636	1.323	2.021	< 0.001
4000 yuan and above	1.412	1.011	1.971	0.043
Region
Cumulative cases of HIV/AIDS
Less than 5000	1
5000–50,000	0.722	0.608	0.856	< 0.001
50,000 and above	1.024	0.882	1.188	0.760
Proportion of minority population
Less than 10%	1
30–80%	0.864	0.751	0.995	0.042
90% and above	0.453	0.347	0.591	< 0.001
Access to health knowledge
NCD (in the last 6 months) and medical instructions
Do not have an NCD	1
Living with an NCD with medical instructions	1.218	1.023	1.451	0.027
Living with an NCD without medical instructions	0.689	0.542	0.875	0.002
Had a physical examination (in the last year)
Yes	1.310	1.125	1.525	< 0.001
No	1
Participated in health education activities (in last 6 months)
Yes	1.413	1.204	1.658	< 0.001
No	1
Received HIV knowledge from medical staff
Yes	2.557	2.244	2.914	< 0.001
No	1
Received HIV knowledge from the mass media
Yes	3.812	2.800	3.618	< 0.001
No	1
Received HIV knowledge from family members
Yes	0.816	0.669	0.996	0.046
No	1
Received HIV knowledge by socializing
Yes	1.524	1.282	1.812	< 0.001
No	1

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