A survey of health problems of Nepalese female migrants workers in the Middle-East and Malaysia

Table 3 Factors influencing health problems in logistic regression analysis

Variables	Health problems				Univariate			Multivariate
	Yes	%	No	%	OR		P	OR		P
Age group
Age 31 and below	124	23.9	395	76.1	0.944	0.94 to 0.82	0.427
Above 31 years	114	23.2	377	76.8
Education status
Illiterate	93	24,6	285	75.4	1.71	1.48 to 1.98	<0.001	1.56	1.02 to 2.38	0.042
Literate	145	22.9	487	77.1
Marital status
Unmarried	47	19.4	195	80.6	0.71	0.49 to 1.01	0.059
Other	191	24.9	577	75.1
Received pre-departure training	57	39.0	89	61.0	2.27	1.57 to 3.29	<0.001
Change of work place	55	19.1	233	80.9	1.44	1.03 to 2.10	0.034	1.63	1.14 to 2.32	0.007
Leave provision	20	27.8	52	72.2	1.77	1.06 to 2.94	0.028
Working hours
Unlimited	93	29.0	228	71.1	1.59	1.18 to 2.14	0.003	1.64	1.44 to 1.93	0.020
12 to 18 hours	145	21.0	544	79.0
Torture at workplace	51	16.4	260	83.6	1.75	1.25 to 2.45	0.001	1.84	1.15 to 2.92	0.010
Unpaid for some of the work	37	15.5	198	84.3	1.85	1.26 to 2.72	0.002	2.38	1.60 to 3.55	0.038
Had home loan	7	21.9	25	78.1	0.89	0.50 to 1.55	0.67
Had fixed salary	130	20.2	512	79.8	1.31	0.96 to 1.79	0.086
Salary on time	103	19.8	417	80.2	1.28	0.94 to 1.73	0.12
Family problem at home	39	90.7	4	9.3	3.18	1.13 to 9.0	0.029	3.48	1.22 to 9.98	0.020

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