Table 5 Logistic regression results for question “In the past 12 months, did you postpone or abstain from a visit when you needed one?” (n = 1791)
From: Associations between primary care practice type and patient-reported access
Variable | Univariate analyses | Multivariate final models | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Without linguistic area | Including linguistic area | |||||
Odds Ratio (95% CI) | p-value | Odds Ratio (95% CI) | p-value | Odds Ratio (95% CI) | p-value | |
Practice comprehensiveness of services score | ||||||
Increased score | 0.91 (0.70–0.96) | 0.001 | 0.92 (0.87–0.97) | < 10 −2 | 0.93 (0.88–0.99) | 0.03 |
Patient sex | ||||||
Male | 0.99 (0.70–1.40) | 0.0.97 | ||||
Patient age | ||||||
Increased age (years) | 1.01 (1.00–1.02) | 0.01 | 1.38 (1.15–1.65) | < 0.001 | 1.40(1.17–1.68) | < 0.001 |
Patient born in Switzerland | ||||||
Born outside Switzerland | 1.58 (1.09–2.27) | 0.02 | ||||
Patient employed or retired | ||||||
Unemployed or problem working | 2.08 (1.26–3.43) | 0.04 | ||||
Patient has not completed secondary education | ||||||
Secondary | 0.86 (0.53–1.39) | 0.54 | ||||
Post-secondary or more | 1.23 (0.75–2.03) | 0.41 | ||||
Patient suffers from a chronic disease | ||||||
No | 0.90 (0.64–1.27) | 0.55 | ||||
Speaks the official language fluently | ||||||
Sufficiently well | 0.90 (0.51–1.58) | 0.71 | ||||
Moderately well | 1.34 (0.68–2.65) | 0.40 | ||||
Poorly | – | – | ||||
Not at all | 1.89 (0.38–9.39) | 0.44 | ||||
Income lower than country average | ||||||
Average | 0.93 (0.54–1.61) | 0.81 | ||||
Above average | 1.43 (0.76–2.71) | 0.27 | ||||
General health status is very good | ||||||
Good | 1.10 (0.63–1.92) | 0.73 | 1.19 (0.67–2.10) | 0.55 | 1.11 (0.63–1.95) | 0.72 |
Fair | 1.99 (1.12–3.52) | 0.02 | 2.04 (1.11–3.77) | 0.02 | 1.84 (1.00–3.40) | 0.05 |
Poor | 2.41 (1.18–4.97) | 0.02 | 2.28 (1.06–4.91) | 0.03 | 2.32 (1.08–4.97) | 0.03 |
Reason for visit was acute illness | ||||||
Other reason | 0.95 (0.67–1.36) | 0.80 | ||||
Visit was with patient’s own doctor | ||||||
Not with patient own doctor | 1.37 (0.76–2.45) | 0.29 | ||||
Number of visits in the last 6 months | ||||||
1.29 (1.09–1.52) | < 0.01 | 1.23 (1.03–1.46) | 0.02 | 1.23 (1.06–1.51) | 0.01 | |
Linguistic area -German speaking | ||||||
French speaking | 1.79 (1.20–2.65) | 0.01 | 1.23 (0.76–1.97) | 0.01 | ||
Italian speaking | 3.67 (2.29–5.89) | < 0.001 | 3.39 (2.10–5.49) | < 0.01 | ||
Urban area | ||||||
Rural area | 0.55 (0.38–0.81) | 0.01 | ||||