Prevention and control practices of hand, foot, and mouth disease and related factors among teachers and child caregivers in childcare centres in Phitsanulok Province: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Factors associated with the prevention and control of HFMD (n = 270)

Variable	n	High practice (%)	Bivariate logistic		Multivariate logistic
Variable	n	High practice (%)	Crude odd ratio (OR) (95% confident interval)	p-value	Adjusted odd ratio (AOR) (95% confident interval)	p-value
Gender
Male	10	3 (30.00)	1.14 (0.31–4.12)	0.851
Female	260	71 (27.30)	1
Age (Years)
< 45	120	27 (22.50)	0.64 (0.37–1.10)	0.105	0.61 (0.33–1.13)	0.113
≥ 45	150	47 (31.33)	1		1
Marital status
Single/Widowed/Divorced/Separated	121	30 (24.79)	0.79 (0.46–1.35)	0.385
Married	149	44 (29.53)	1
Highest education
Less than university	66	18 (27.27)	0.99 (0.53–1.84)	0.977
University and above	204	56 (27.45)	1
Number of years working in childcare (years)
≥ 13	130	35 (26.92)	0.95 (0.56–1.63)	0.863
< 13	140	39 (27.85)	1
HFMD training experience within the last year
Yes	95	23 (24.21)	0.78 (0.44–1.37)	0.385
No	175	51 (29.14)	1
Experienced in caring for child infected with HFMD
Yes	180	57 (31.66)	1.99 (1.08–3.65)	0.026	2.57 (1.29–5.13)	0.007*
No	90	17 (18.88)	1		1
Knowledge of HFMD
Adequate (≥ 10)	114	25 (21.92)	0.61 (0.35–1.07)	0.084	0.640 (0.34–1.21)	0.168
Inadequate (< 10)	156	49 (31.41)	1		1
Attitude towards HFMD
Positive (≥ 60)	78	30 (38.46)	2.10 (1.20–3.70)	0.009	2.690 (1.41–5.15)	0.003*
Negative (< 60)	192	44 (22.91)	1		1
Support information and equipment received
Good (≥ 54)	68	37 (54.41)	5.32 (2.94–9.63)	< 0.001	6.262 (3.26–12.02)	< 0.001*
Poor (< 54)	202	37 (18.31)	1		1

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