Table 4.

Factors associated with undertaking long-term diabetes screening in 718 females over a 5-year period

Model performanceRandom effects
Bayesian information criteria1013Random intercepts for practice region:
-log-likelihood470.4Variance0.427
ROC curve statistic0.68Standard deviation0.653
Fixed effectsn(%)Odds ratio (95% CI)P-value
Smoking status
Not recorded251 (35.0)0.80 (0.56 to 1.14)0.212
Never smoked299 (41.6)1.00 [reference]
Current118 (16.4)0.56 (0.35 to 0.89)0.014
Ex-smoker50 (7.0)0.71 (0.37 to 1.35)0.295
Ethnicity
White273 (38.0)1.00 [reference]
Mixed11 (1.5)2.13 (0.58 to 7.89)0.258
Asian115 (16.0)1.66 (1.02 to 2.72)0.041
Black39 (5.4)1.16 (0.57 to 2.37)0.679
Other14 (1.9)0.79 (0.25 to 2.47)0.689
Actively not stated21 (2.9)0.66 (0.26 to 1.70)0.393
Not recorded245 (34.1)0.69 (0.47 to 1.00)0.050
  • ROC = receiver operating characteristic.