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

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
鈥僂arly adulthood	0.037	0.466	0.006	1.04 (0.42鈥�2.59)	0.937
鈥僊iddle-late adulthood	0	听	听	听	0.937
Gender
鈥僊补濒别	0.73	0.742	0.977	2.08 (0.48鈥�8.92)	0.323
鈥僃别尘补濒别	0	听	听	听	0.323
Marital status
鈥侨颈苍驳濒别	鈭�0.140	0.491	0.082	0.87 (0.33鈥�2.27)	0.775
鈥僊补谤谤颈别诲	0	听	听	听	0.775
Education level	1.147	0.549	4.361	3.15 (1.07鈥�9.25)	0.037*
Low	0	听	听	听
Middle-high	听	听	听	听
Working status	0.572	0.501	1.301	1.77 (0.66鈥�4.73)	0.254
Working	0	听	听	听
Not working	听	听	听	听
Income
鈥僕颈迟丑	鈭�2.46	0.559	19.416	0.08 (0.029鈥�3.07)	&濒迟;鈥�0.001*
鈥僕颈迟丑out	0	听	听	听	&濒迟;鈥�0.001*
Smoking
鈥僘别蝉	鈭�0.13	0.638	0.040	0.88 (0.25鈥�3..07)	0.841
鈥僋辞	0	听	听	听	0.841
Took Alcohol
鈥僘别蝉	鈭�1.11	0.794	1.956	0.33 (0.69鈥�1.56)	0.162
鈥僋辞	0	听	听	听	0.162
Took drugs
鈥僘别蝉	0.221	0.543	0.166	1.25 (0.43鈥�3.62)	0.684
鈥僋辞	0	听	听	听	0.684
Disease
鈥仅补惫别	鈭�0.437	0.482	0.820	0.65 (0.25鈥�1.66)	0.365
鈥僋辞	0	听	听	听	0.365
Disability
鈥仅补惫别	鈭�3.012	1.473	4.183	0.05 (0.003鈥�0.88)	0.041*
鈥僋辞	0	听	听	听	0.041*

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