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Table 5 Mediation: adjusted effects of socio-cultural capital and economic capital on child health-seeking behaviours

From: Socio-economic inequalities in curative health-seeking for children in Egypt: analysis of the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey

Outcome

(1) Direct effect of socio-cultural capital

(2) Direct effect of economic capital

(3) Total effect of socio-cultural capital

(4) % of total effect of socio-cultural capital mediated by economic capital

 

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

ΣΔp (95 % CI)

% (95 % CI)

Diarrhoea

 Sought treatment

0.98 (0.71 to 1.35)

1.33 (0.96 to 1.83)

0.02 (−0.03 to 0.08)

Not applicable

 Timely treatment

1.50 (0.98 to 2.27)

0.93 (0.60 to 1.44)

0.07 (0.01 to 0.14)

0 %

 Private treatment

1.05 (0.70 to 1.57)

1.99 (1.26 to 3.13)

0.05 (0.00 to 0.10)

92 % (0 % to 100 %)

ARI

 Sought treatment

1.20 (0.81 to 1.77)

1.06 (0.70 to 1.61)

0.03 (−0.02 to 0.07)

Not applicable

 Timely treatment

1.23 (0.86 to 1.78)

1.18 (0.81 to 1.73)

0.07 (0.00 to 0.13)

28 % (15 % to 100 %)

 Private treatment

0.95 (0.65 to 1.39)

2.66 (1.57 to 4.52)

0.06 (0.01 to 0.11)

99 % (64 % to 100 %)

  1. OR Odds ratio associated with one unit increase in score. ARI Acute respiratory infection. 95%CI 95 % confidence interval. ΣΔp Total effect of socio-cultural capital expressed as sum of the changes in probability of outcome based on both indirect (mediated by economic capital) and direct effects