Anticipated time to seek medical advice for possible lung cancer symptoms and barriers to timely presentation in Palestine: a national cross-sectional study

Table 6 Multivariable logistic regression analyzing the association between lung cancer symptom awareness and having at least the median number of barriers to seek medical advice for a possible lung cancer symptom

Awareness of LC symptoms	All barriers		Emotional barriers		Service barriers		Practical barriers
Awareness of LC symptoms	AOR (95% CI)^a	p-value	AOR (95% CI)^a	p-value	AOR (95% CI)^a	p-value	AOR (95% CI)^a	p-value
Poor	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Fair	1.21 (0.71–2.08)	0.49	1.04 (0.59–1.83)	0.88	0.86 (0.48–1.53)	0.60	1.43 (0.84–2.43)	0.19
Good	1.17 (0.70–1.98)	0.55	1.02 (0.59–1.75)	0.95	0.91 (0.52–1.60)	0.75	1.22 (0.73–2.04)	0.45

AOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval, WBJ West Bank and Jerusalem, LC lung cancer
The outcome in all models is binary with the median number of barriers in each category utilized as the cutoff
^aAdjusted for age-group, gender, educational level, occupation, monthly income, marital status, residency, having a chronic disease, knowing someone with cancer, smoking history, and site of data collection

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