Factors affecting utilization of sexual and reproductive health services among women with disabilities- a mixed-method cross-sectional study from Ilam district, Nepal

Table 6 Disability-related characteristics of respondents and their association with utilization of SRH services (n = 384)

Characteristics	Utilization of SRH services		p-value	Crude OR (95%CI)
Characteristics	Yes n (%)	No n (%)	p-value	Crude OR (95%CI)
Type of disability
Physical disability	31(26.1)	88(73.9)	0.000*	3.0(1.692–5.254)
Other than physical disability^a	28(10.6)	237(89.4)		Ref
The severity of disability^b (n = 318)
Mild	19(28.8)	47(71.2)	0.001*	2.8(1.500–5.262)
Moderate/Severe/Profound	40(2.6)	278(87.4)		Ref

^a Disability-related to vision (26), hearing (62), voice and speech (26), mental/psychosocial disability (44), intellectual disability (35), Autism (2) and multiple disabilities (70)
^bSeverity of disability was determined based on disability ID card issued by the Government of Nepal as per Nepal Disability Rights Act 2017 [16]
The crude odds ratio is the odds ratio that identifies the association between variables with the use of SRH services. The variable for which p-value is less than 0.05(*) is considered significant
Ref reference group

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