Barriers in physical access to maternal health services in rural Ethiopia

Table 2 Associations between socio-demographic characteristics and travel time to Dabat Health Centre

Variable	Categories	N	Mean travel time (SD)	Unadjusted		Adjusted^a
Variable	Categories	N	Mean travel time (SD)	Mean difference (95 % CI), minutes	P-value	Mean difference (95 % CI), minutes	P-value
Household wealth	Least poor	363	2 h 43mins (1 h 5mins)	0	0.627	0	0.055
	Middle	459	2 h 38mins (1 h 3mins)	−4 (−13, 4)		−10 (−19,−1)
	Poorest	471	2 h 41mins (1 h 8mins)	−2 (−11, 7)		−8 (−19, 1)
Woman’s education	No education	890	2 h 50mins (1 h 7mins)	0	<0.0001	0	<0.0001
Woman’s education	Any education	530	2 h 23mins (56mins)	−26 (−34, −20)	<0.0001	−41 (−50, −31)	<0.0001
Woman’s age	15–20 years	495	2 h 37mins (1 h 4mins)	0	<0.0001	0	<0.0001
	21–30 years	452	2 h 50mins (1 h 11mins)	13 (4, 21)		−11 (−23, 0)
	31–49 years	473	2 h 32mins (58mins)	−5 (−13, 3)		−32 (−47, −17)
Woman’s parity	0	446	2 h 30mins (1 h 1 min)	0	<0.0001	0	0.132
	1–3	391	2 h 53mins (1 h 10mins)	23 (14, 31)		10 (−2, 20)
	4–5	281	2 h 40mins (1 h 7mins)	9 (0, 19)		−1 (−16, 14)
	6–13	292	2 h 37mins (58mins)	7 (−2, 16)		2 (−14, 19)

^aMean difference for household wealth and woman’s education and parity are adjusted for all variables in the model; mean difference for woman’ age is adjusted for household wealth and woman’s education only

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