From: Absenteeism among medical and health science undergraduate students at Hawassa University, Ethiopia
P-value | Unadjusted ORs (95% CI) | P-value | AOR (95% CI) | ||
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Age | <0.0001 | 1.18 (1.102, 1.257) | 0.020 | 1.19 (1.028, 1.374) | |
Grown up | Urban (ref) | ||||
Rural | <0.0001 | 0.46 (0.360, 0.579) | <0.0001 | 0.41 (0.251, 0.663) | |
High school | Governmental or public (ref) | ||||
Private | <0.0001 | 2.56 (1.897, 3.453) | 0.030 | 2.10 (1.077, 4.103) | |
Missionary | 0.005 | 3.32 (1.429, 7.711) | 0.126 | 3.84 (0.686, 21.496) | |
University entrance examination score range | Excellent (ref) | ||||
Very good | <0.0001 | 0.41 (0.303, 0.565) | 0.107 | 0.645 (0.378, 1.100) | |
Good | <0.0001 | 0.40 (0.283, 0.561) | 0.130 | 0.628 (0.344, 1.147) | |
Fair | 0.291 | 0.62 (0.260, 1.497) | 0.860 | 0.843 (0.127, 5.595) | |
Poor | 0.822 | 0.87 (0.269, 2.834) | 0.613 | 0.600 (0.083, 4.348) | |
Students mother or next of kin education level | No education (ref) | ||||
Primary | 0.045 | 1.35 (1.007, 1.821) | 0.337 | 1.37 (0.723, 2.579) | |
Secondary | <0.0001 | 1.87 (1.326, 2.630) | 0.969 | 0.98 (0.421, 2.297) | |
Diploma | <0.0001 | 2.62 (1.791, 3.842) | 0.238 | 0.530 (0.185, 1.520) | |
Degree | 0.002 | 1.98 (1.277, 3.065) | 0.419 | 0.62 (0.197, 1.964) | |
Students father or next of kin education level | No education (ref) | ||||
Primary | 0.739 | 0.95 (0.679, 1.316) | 0.476 | 0.78 (0.400, 1.534) | |
Secondary | 0.313 | 1.21 (0.836, 1.747) | 0.984 | 0.99 (0.431, 2.283) | |
Diploma | 0.001 | 1.90 (1.297, 2.769) | 0.553 | 0.76 (0.313, 1.863) | |
Degree | <0.0001 | 1.97 (1.398, 2.785) | 0.587 | 0.76 (0.287, 2.027) | |
Place to have meal | In the university cafeteria (ref) | ||||
Non-café | 0.001 | 1.65 (1.242, 2.202) | 0.498 | 1.27 (0.638, 2.522) | |
Money they get monthly from family or relatives | Less than 100 birr (ref) | ||||
100-200 birr | 0.326 | 1.28 (0.783, 2.083 | 0.037 | 2.50 (1.058, 5.900) | |
200-300 birr | 0.044 | 1.62 (1.012, 2.586) | 0.016 | 2.92 (1.221, 6.969) | |
300-500 birr | <0001 | 2.28 (1.457, 3.550) | 0.014 | 3.00 (1.251, 7.209) | |
More than 500 birr | <0001 | 3.70 (2.241, 6.101) | 0.060 | 2.71 (0.961, 7.618) | |
Field of study | Medicine (ref) | ||||
Nursing | <0001 | 0.17 (0.113, 0.241) | <0.0001 | 0.11 (0.044, 0.253) | |
Midwifery | <0001 | 0.19 (0.122, 0.292) | 0.001 | 0.20 (0.075, 0.514) | |
Medical laboratory technology | <0001 | 0.20 (0.122, 0.316) | 0.005 | 0.21 (0.073, 0.624) | |
Health officer | <0001 | 0.19 (0.136, 0.262) | <0.0001 | 0.12 (0.061, 0.239) | |
Optometry | <0001 | 0.23 (0.129, 0.397) | 0.003 | 0.13 (0.033, 0.487) | |
Environmental | <0001 | 0.17 (0.077, 0.353) | 0.002 | 0.11 (0.026, 0.427) | |
Year of study | 1st year (ref) | ||||
2nd year | <0001 | 2.66 (1.660, 4.261) | 0.335 | 1.80 (0.545, 5.925) | |
3rd year | <0001 | 3.67 (2.267, 5.931) | 0.379 | 1.73 (0.511, 5.856) | |
4th year | <0001 | 4.65 (2.903, 7.435) | 0.352 | 1.81 (0.518, 6.354) | |
5th year | <0001 | 8.56 (4.636, 15.895) | 0.745 | 1.30 (0.267, 6.326) | |
Joined field of study as per choice | Yes (ref) | ||||
No | 0.017 | 0.74 (0.571, 0.946) | 0.211 | 1.40 (0.828, 2.357) | |
Total number of students in a class (per one additional student) | <0001 | 1.01 (1.009, 1.014) | 0.619 | 1.00 (0.995, 1.009) | |
Reason for missing classes | Class schedule inconvenience | <0001 | 1.93 (1.526, 2.426) | <0.0001 | 3.40 (2.137, 5.405) |
The subject does not need teachers guidance (simplicity) | <0001 | 3.10 (2.105, 4.561) | <0.0001 | 4.80 (2.403, 9.575) | |
Lack of interest to the subject | 0.002 | 2.07 (1.296, 3.312) | 0.087 | 2.19 (0.893, 5.352) | |
Do not like teachers teaching style | <0001 | 2.74 (2.077, 3.611) | 0.014 | 1.83 (1.133, 2.954) | |
First year GPA | 0.065 | 1.33 (0.982, 1.810) | 0.020 | 0.52 (0.298, 0.903) | |
Social drug use | Never used (ref) | ||||
Khat | 0.195 | 1.39 (0.846, 2.276) | 0.847 | 1.09 (0.465, 2.539) | |
Cigarette | 0.031 | 2.92 (1.100, 7.737) | 0.392 | 2.47 (0.311, 19.619) | |
Alcohol | 0.324 | 1.35 (0.745, 2.432) | 0.159 | 2.09 (0.750, 5.832) |