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Table 4 Proportion‡ of most recent diagnostic provider across sociodemographic groups

From: Diagnosis of chronic conditions with modifiable lifestyle risk factors in selected urban and rural areas of Bangladesh and sociodemographic variability therein

 

MBBS

IAP

NAP

Other QAP

 

urban

rural

urban

rural

urban

rural

urban

rural

Variables (%)*†

        

Total

3990 (88.0%)

3605 (59.7%)

357 (7.9%)

2107 (34.9%)

117(2.6%)

158 (2.6%)

71 (1.6%)

165 (2.7%)

Gender

        

Male

1777 (88.0%)

1691 (65.7%)

155 (7.7%)

753 (29.2%)

64 (3.2%)

81 (3.1%)

23 (1.1%)

50 (1.9%)

Female

2214 (88.0%)

1914 (55.3%)

201 (8.0%)

1354 (39.1%)

53 (2.0%)

77 (2.2%)

48 (1.9%)

115 (3.3%)

Age

        

25 - 40

1360 (83.1%)

775 (56.5%)

189 (11.6%)

481 (35.1%)

53 (3.4%)

45 (3.3%)

34 (2.1%)

71 (5.2%)

40 - 50

1188 (89.9%)

791 (58.3%)

82 (6.2%)

493 (36.4%)

31 (2.4%)

43 (3.2%)

21 (1.6%)

29 (2.1%)

50 - 60

903 (91.0%)

916 (63.2%)

62 (6.3%)

468 (32.6%)

18 (1.7%)

35 (2.4%)

9 (0.9%)

31 (2.1%)

60+

540 (92.6%)

1123 (60.5%)

22 (3.8%)

664 (35.8%)

14 (2.4%)

36 (1.9%)

7 (1.2%)

34 (1.8%)

Education

        

No education

839 (79.7%)

1236 (48.9%)

152 (14.4%)

1153 (45.6%)

38 (3.5%)

53 (2.1%)

24 (2.3%)

84 (3.3%)

Primary

614 (83.9%)

1063 (66.6%)

74 (10.1%)

519 (31.0%)

28 (3.8%)

49 (2.9%)

16 (2.2%)

41 (2.5%)

Secondary

1410 (91.5%)

1052 (69.3%)

82 (5.3%)

389 (25.6%)

26 (1.8%)

43 (2.8%)

23 (1.5%)

34 (2.2%)

Higher secondary

426 (91.6%)

159 (81.1%)

25 (5.4%)

27 (13.8%)

9 (2.1%)

8 (4.1%)

5 (1.1%)

2 (1.0%)

Higher

700 (94.3%)

95 (77.2%)

24 (3.2%)

19 (15.4%)

15 (2.0%)

5 (4.1%)

3 (0.4%)

4 (3.3%)

Poverty status

        

Most poor

186 (60.2%)

215 (36.4%)

97 (31.4%)

334 (56.6%)

17 (5.6%)

16 (2.7%)

9 (2.9%)

25 (4.2%)

More poor

392 (73.6%)

385 (46.7%)

65 (16.4%)

380 (46.1%)

29 (7.2%)

28 (3.4%)

11 (2.8%)

32 (3.9%)

Middle

611 (87.9%)

616 (55.2%)

56 (8.1%)

438 (39.2%)

15 (2.2%)

34 (3.0%)

13 (1.9%)

28 (2.5%)

Less poor

957 (90.1%)

817 (60.3%)

62 (5.8%)

464 (34.2%)

24 (2.3%)

35 (2.6%)

19 (1.8%)

40 (2.9%)

Least poor

1950 (93.9%)

1538 (76.6%)

76 (3.7%)

467 (22.4%)

31 (1.5%)

45 (2.2%)

19 (0.9%)

39 (1.9%)

  1. MBBS- Medical Bachelors Bachelor of Surgery; Other QAP- Other Qualified Allopathic Provider; IAP Informal Allopathic Provider; NAP- Non-Allopathic Provider
  2. * P value < 0.05 considered statistically significant, all provider group values were statistically significant compared to each other.
  3. †All figures are based on disease diagnoses not respondents with disease