Functional beliefs and risk minimizing beliefs among Thai healthcare workers in Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai hospital: its association with intention to quit tobacco and alcohol

Table 4 Association between functional belief, risk minimizing beliefs and cessation of alcohol use within past year

	Adjusted Odds ratio	95% CI	test value	df	p-value
Functional belief factor score (quartile)			178..2	1	<0.01
1st (lowest)	Reference
2nd	0.22	0.15 to 0.33
3rd	0.11	0.07 to 0.16
4th (highest)	0.04	0.03 to 0.07
Risk minimizing belief factor score (quartile)			53.4	1	<0.01
1st (lowest)	Reference
2nd	0.50	0.34 to 0.74
3rd	0.32	0.21 to 0.48
4th (highest)	0.21	0.13 to 0.32
Age (increase)	1.03	1.01 to 1.04	13.2	1	<0.01
Sex			65.6	1	<0.01
Female	Reference
Male	0.26	0.18 to 0.36
Income (baht/month)			4.93	2	0.08
< 30,000	Reference
30,000-60,000	1.34	0.96 to 1.86
> 60,000	1.54	1.01 to 2.36
Highest education			7.11	2	0.03
Below Bachelor’s degree	Reference
Bachelor’s degree	1.43	1.01 to 2.02
Higher than Bachelor’s degree	1.93	1.16 to 3.22
Occupation			3.98	1	0.05
Health professional	Reference
Non-health professional	0.72	0.53 to 0.99

Test value using Walds test; CI confidence interval; df degree of freedom; all odds ratios are adjusted for all variables presented in the table

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