Ordinal logistic regression analysis to assess the factors that affect health status of students in ambo university a case of natural and computational sciences college, ambo university

O.Chandra Sekhara Reddy and Endale Alemayehu Page No.153 Ordinal logistic regression analysis to assess the factors that affect health status of students in Ambo University: a case of natural and computational sciences college, Ambo University O.ChandraSekhara Reddy*, Endale Alemayehu Statistics Department, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia. .................................................................................................................................. Abstract: This study was intended to investigate the factors that affect the health status of the students in Ambo University in case of College of Natural and computational Science. The self-health assessment was applied as an indicator of health status in this study. The sample for this study was drawn from the students of College of Natural and computational Science Ambo University. The information was collected by welldesigned questionnaire from the students. The dependent variables were health status of students. The independent variables included sex, income, lack of hygiene of café, usage of medicine, smoking cigarette, alcohol consumption, physical exercise, Environmental factor and bad smelling around the cafe. The statistical method of analysis applied for testing the association and the factors affecting health status in the students was Ordinal Logistic regression and chi-square test statistics. The results revealed that sex, income, lack of hygiene of café, smoking cigarette, bad smelling around the café, Alcohol consumption and Environmental factor are factors that affect health status of the students. In general most of the variables included in the regression model had significant effects like sex, lack of hygiene of café, usage of medicine, smoking cigarette, bad smelling around the café and Environmental factor are found to be more significantly associated with health status of students.