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Table 6 Associations of health centre level and individual level factors with adherence to delivery of scheduled preventive services

From: Variation in quality of preventive care for well adults in Indigenous community health centres in Australia

  

Dependent variable

Characteristic

(independent variables)

Adherence to delivery (%)

Unadjusted Coefficients (95% CI)

Adjusted Coefficients* (95% CI)

Regions

   

NT Top End

34%

Referent

Referent

NT Central Australia

42%

8% (-6%,23%)

7% (-5%,19%)

Far West NSW

19%

-15% (-26%,-4%)

-14% (-27%,-2%)

WA

28%

-6% (-19%,7%)

3% (-12%,18%)

North QLD

37%

3% (-7%,13%)

9% (-1%, 18%)

Health centre level characteristics

   

Locations

   

   City (n = 150)

23%

Referent

Referent

   Regional town (n = 360)

25%

2% (-7%,12%)

9% (-6%,24%)

   Remote community (n = 1329)

38%

15% (7%,22%)

18% (3%,33%)

Health service governance

   

   Government (n = 980)

33%

Referent

Referent

   Indigenous committee or board (n = 859)

35%

2% (-7%, 11%)

13% (3%,24%)

General practice accreditation status

   

   Not accredited (n = 1263)

33%

Referent

Referent

   Currently accredited (n = 576)

36%

3% (-5%,12%)

6% (-1%,13%)

Sizes of populations served

   

   ≤ 500 (n = 562)

42%

Referent

Referent

   501-999 (n = 507)

34%

-8% (-20%,4%)

-5% (-15%,5%)

   ≥ 1000 (n = 770)

28%

-14% (-24%,-4%)

-10% (-19%,-1%)

Individual level characteristics

   

Age (years)

   

   15-24 (n = 627)

32%

Referent

Referent

   25-39 (n = 660)

37%

5% (2%,9%)

6% (2%,9%)

   40-54 (n = 552)

33%

1% (-2%,4%)

3% (-1%,6%)

Sex

   

   Males (n = 909)

31%

Referent

Referent

   Females (n = 930)

37%

6% (3%,9%)

6% (3%,8%)

R 2 of the model**

 

13%

  1. * Calculated using two-level random effects linear regression models, with adjustment of other variables in the table.
  2. Coefficients significant at 0.05 level are shown in bold.
  3. ** R2 represents the proportion of the total variability in the dependent variables that were explained by all independent variables listed in the table.