The “Healthy Akame!” community – government – university collaboration for health: a community-based participatory mixed-method approach to address health issue in rural Japan

Table 4 Regression model for the determinants of willingness to participate in a community health program^a

Predictor Variables^b	β	SE of β	OR	95% CI of OR
Female	0.47	0.19	1.61	1.09 to 2.37
Unemployed	- 0.26	0.23	0.78	0.49 to 1.21
Education
Elementary school/ Junior high	reference
Senior high	- 0.38	0.35	0.68	0.34 to 1.36
College/ University	- 0.76	0.37	0.47	0.22 to 0.95
Age Group
Young adults	reference
Middle-age	- 0.02	0.36	0.98	0.48 to 2.00
Older adults	0.42	0.39	1.53	0.71 to 3.34
Participation in community activities
Never/ seldom	reference
Sometimes	1.13	0.34	3.11	1.63 to 6.20
Frequent	1.14	0.25	3.13	1.95 to 5.14
Preventive behaviors
Low	reference
Intermediate	0.33	0.22	1.39	0.91 to 2.12
High	0.66	0.26	1.94	1.16 to 3.26
Consider disease prevention as important	0.22	1.13	1.25	0.12 to 13.29
High common bond to community	- 0.11	0.23	0.89	0.57 to 1.41
High common identity to community	0.19	0.23	1.21	0.76 to 1.91
High commitment to community	0.65	0.23	1.92	1.23 to 3.02

Test: Akaike information criterion = 704, Nagelkerke pseudo-R² = 0.19
There was no multicollinearity between the predictor variables
^a Criterion variable: Willingness to participate in community health program (yes/no)
^b Predictor variables (full model): age group, sex, educational background, employment status, importance of disease prevention, preventive behaviors, participation in community activities, community identity (common bond to community, common identity to community), commitment to community

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