Effect of hospital attributes on patient preference among outpatient attendants in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia: discrete choice experiment study

Table 4 Random effect probit regression and average marginal effect for determining the valuing of main attributes of patient preference

Attributes	Random effect probit regression				Average Marginal Effect (Delta Method)
Attributes	Coefficient	SE	95% CI		dy/dx	SE	95% CI
Moderate HCP competence	0.27**	0.020	0.23	0.31	0.105	0.008	0.09	0.12
Good HCP competence	0.63**	0.021	0.59	0.68	0.24	0.0084	0.22	0.26
Partially available medical equipment and supply	0.13**	0.019	0.096	0.17	0.051	0.007	0.037	0.066
Fully available medical equipment and supply	0.57**	0.027	0.52	0.62	0.22	0.010	0.197	0.24
Near to the hospital	0.057**	0.017	0.024	0.09	0.022	0.0064	0.009	0.03
No information on hospital reputation	0.17**	0.02	0.14	0.23	0.066	0.0091	0.048	0.084
Moderate hospital reputation	0.087**	0.021	0.046	0.13	0.033	0.0082	0.017	0.049
Good hospital reputation	0.19**	0.026	0.14	0.24	0.072	0.01	0.053	0.091
Waiting time	-0.03*	0.0095	-0.046	-0.0086	-0.01	0.0036	-0.017	-0.0033
Service cost	-0.00025***	0.00003	-0.0003	-0.0002	-0.000095	0.000011	-0.00012	-0.000074
Constant	-0.43**	0.024	-0.47	-0.38
Log of variance (lnsig2u)	-.1.5674		-4.1846	-0.3149
Standard deviation (Sigma_u)	0.4567		0.1234	0.8543
rho (\(\rho )\)	0.1725**		0.1499	0.2219

Log likelihood = -19,533.95. Number of observations = 29,260. Number of groups = 1045. Wald x²(10) = 439.17. Prob > x² = 0.0000. * Indicates p-value < 0.05 and ** if p-value < 0.001. dy/dx for factor levels is the discrete change from base level

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