Literacy and healthcare-seeking among women with low educational attainment: analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2011 Nepal demographic and health survey

Table 8 Crude and adjusted relative odds of having sought care for STI/STI symptoms among women with STI/STI symptoms in the past 12 months

	Women with at most primary schooling (sample N = 845)				Women with no formal schooling (subsample N = 597)
	Crude		Adjusted^a		Crude		Adjusted^b
	OR (95% CI)	p ^c	OR (95% CI)	p ^c	OR (95% CI)	p ^c	OR (95% CI)	p ^c
Literacy		0.001		0.219		0.003		0.038
Illiterate^d	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Literate	1.78 (1.26-2.52)		1.34 (0.84-2.15)		2.49 (1.36-4.56)		1.86 (1.03-3.34)
Primary schooling		0.102		0.969
None^d	1.00		1.00
Incomplete	1.40 (0.93-2.10)		1.07 (0.63-1.82)
Complete	1.52 (0.83-2.77)		1.05 (0.49-2.23)
Women’s age (per year)
< 35	1.06 (1.02-1.10)	0.006	1.06 (1.01-1.11)	0.011	1.05 (0.99-1.11)	0.110	1.04 (0.97-1.10)	0.254
≥ 35	0.94 (0.89-1.00)	0.047	0.93 (0.88-0.99)	0.025	0.95 (0.89-1.01)	0.122	0.93 (0.87-1.00)	0.039
Household wealth
Per quintile	1.41 (1.22-1.63)	<0.001	1.42 (1.21-1.66)	<0.001	1.42 (1.19-1.71)	<0.001	1.45 (1.20-1.76)	<0.001
(lowest is ref)	1.41 (1.22-1.63)	<0.001	1.42 (1.21-1.66)	<0.001	1.42 (1.19-1.71)	<0.001	1.45 (1.20-1.76)	<0.001
Caste/ethnicity		0.037		0.043		0.101		0.118
Brahmin/Chhetri^d	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Newar or Janajati	1.31 (0.87-1.97)		1.23 (0.81-1.88)		1.32 (0.80-2.19)		1.09 (0.65-1.82)
Dalit	1.28 (0.87-1.87)		1.49 (0.96-2.30)		1.31 (0.84-2.03)		1.33 (0.81-2.18)
Muslim or other	0.56 (0.31-1.02)		0.62 (0.33-1.17)		0.48 (0.21-1.12)		0.44 (0.18-1.07)
Geographic location		0.089		0.600		0.006		0.435
Urban^d	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Rural	0.70 (0.46-1.06)		1.14 (0.69-1.90)		0.50 (0.31-0.82)		0.78 (0.42-1.45)
Partnered status		0.535		0.637		0.718		0.597
Not partnered	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.00
Married/living with partner	1.32 (0.54-3.24)		1.23 (0.52-2.93)		1.20 (0.44-3.31)		1.30 (0.49-3.48)

^aThe constant from the multiple logistic regression was -0.921, and the p-value from the Archer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test for this model was 0.900.
^bThe constant from the multiple logistic regression was -0.640, and the p-value from the Archer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test for this model was 0.466.
^cLogistic regression p values are adjusted Wald p values.
^dDenotes reference group.

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