Breast cancer awareness among women in Eastern China: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Multivariate analysis of factors related to knowledge of breast cancer

	B	S.E.	Wald	P	OR	95.0% CI
Age	−0.025	0.008	11.126	0.001	0.975	0.960–0.990
Location	0.516	0.023	504.259	<0.0001	1.675	1.602–1.752
Family history of BC	0.210	0.072	8.645	0.003	1.234	1.073–1.420
Occupation
Farmer				<0.0001	1.000*
Worker	0.494	0.027	347.684	<0.0001	1.640	1.557–1.727
Medical staff	1.563	0.051	922.679	<0.0001	4.774	4.316–5.281
Other	0.839	0.026	1038.348	<0.0001	2.313	2.198–2.434
Household annual income	−0.873	0.022	1546.955	<0.0001	0.418	0.400–0.436
Behavioral prevention score	1.42	0.018	5941.213	<0.0001	4.137	3.991–4.290
Not smoking	0.748	0.179	17.517	0.039	2.113	1.488–2.999
Not drinking	0.355	0.172	4.261	<0.0001	1.427	1.018–2.000
Overall life satisfaction	−0.347	0.017	403.96	0.001	0.707	0.683–0.731

*Reference.
BC: breast cancer; CI: Confidence interval.
Location: urban or rural, reference: rural group.
Family history of BC, reference: those with no family history of BC.
Occupation: “Other” includes occupations such as teacher, civil servant, individual business, driver, service, company employee and housewife.
Household annual income, reference: low income group.
Behavioral prevention score was a cumulative score of 5 items; reference: low scores.
Not smoking, reference: smokers.
Not drinking, reference: drinkers.
Overall life satisfaction was a cumulative score of 12 items, reference: high life satisfaction.

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