From: Assessing the contextual effect of community in the utilization of postnatal care services in Ghana
Predictors | UOR (95% CI) | P-value |
---|---|---|
Individual-level characteristics | ||
 Age (years) | 0.98 (0.97, 0.99) | 0.02 |
Marital status | ||
 Cohabitating | 0.84 (0.55, 1.27) | 0.4 |
 Widow/divorced/separated | 0.94 (0.56, 1.57) | |
 Married | 1.05 (0.72, 1.53) | |
 Single | Reference | |
Religion | ||
 Islam | 3.03 (1.98, 4.65) | < 0.0001 |
 Christians | 3.04 (2.18, 4.22) | |
 Traditional/other | Reference | |
Ethnicity | ||
 Akan | 1.88 (1.26, 2.81) | 0.0001 |
 Northern tribes | 1.07 (0.71, 1.62) | |
 Ga | 2.69 (1.35, 5.33) | |
 Other | 0.85 (0.49, 1.66) | |
 Ewe | Reference | |
Parity | ||
 Three or more births | 0.65 (0.50, 0.85) | 0.0005 |
 Two births | 0.96 (0.69, 1.33) | |
 One birth | Reference | |
Educational attainment | ||
 No education | 0.41 (0.31, 0.52) | < 0.0001 |
 Primary | 0.52 (0.40, 0.69) | |
 Secondary/Higher | Reference | |
Wealth status | ||
 Poor | 0.18 (0.13, 0.26) | < 0.0001 |
 Middle | 0.39 (0.27, 0.58) | |
 Rich | Reference | |
Employment status | ||
 Working | 0.97 (0.76, 1.24) | 0.8 |
 Not working | Reference | |
Community-level characteristics | ||
Community Problem with distance to health facility | ||
 Not a big problem | 1.39 (1.11, 1.73) | 0.004 |
 Big problem | Reference | |
Area of residence | ||
 Urban | 3.32 (2.35, 4.68) | < 0.0001 |
 Rural | Reference | |
Community Poverty level | ||
 High | 0.28 (0.20, 0.41) | < 0.0001 |
 Low | Reference | |
Community Education level | ||
 Percentage of women with at least secondary education per community | 1.03 (1.02, 1.04) | < 0.0001 |
Community unemployment level | ||
 Percentage of women without employment per community | 1.01 (0.99, 1.02) | 0.22 |