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Table 1 Association of the PBMC score and selected variables (univariate regressions)

From: Predicting health services utilization using a score of perceived barriers to medical care: evidence from rural Senegal

Variable group

Dependent variable

Model

Type of estimate

Estimate

p-value

Determinants of healthcare-seeking

Had primary education or higher

Logistic

OR

0.62**

(0.10)

0.002

Was a woman

Logistic

OR

1.53***

(0.12)

<0.001

Was in a union

Logistic

OR

0.68*

(0.13)

0.042

Age

Linear

CE

-0.81

(0.92)

0.376

Was poor (monetary poverty, HH level)

Logistic

OR

1.37*

(0.19)

0.023

Was poor (food poverty, HH level)

Logistic

OR

1.45**

(0.20)

0.007

Was poor (subjective poverty, HH level)

Logistic

OR

1.77***

(0.26)

<0.001

Monthly consumption expenditures per adult equivalent (in CFA)

Linear

CE

-1611.87*

(672.56)

0.017

Number of adult equivalents in the household (HH level)

Linear

CE

-1.12**

(0.39)

0.004

Distance to the nearest healthcare structure (in km)

Linear

CE

1.32***

(0.13)

<0.001

Distance to the nearest CBHI (in km)

Linear

CE

0.52**

(0.19)

0.006

Other potentially-associated variables

Had an at least fair knowledge of CBHI

Logistic

OR

0.64**

(0.09)

0.001

Health insurance status

Multinomial logistic

RRR (Voluntary)

0.52***

(0.09)

<0.001

RRR (Subsidized)

1.82**

(0.34)

0.001

Willingness to pay for CBHI (in CFA francs)

Linear

CE

-1019.09***

(216.71)

<0.001

Had a chronic illness

Logistic

OR

1.69*

(0.37)

0.017

Had a handicap

Logistic

OR

1.75*

(0.46)

0.031

Had a poorer health

Logistic

OR

1.86***

(0.25)

<0.001

SF-12 Mental Component Summary

Linear

CE

0.35

(0.49)

0.475

SF-12 Physical Component Summary

Linear

CE

-1.63*

(0.65)

0.012

Perception of healthcare quality

Linear

CE

0.16***

(0.03)

<0.001

Risk tolerance

Linear

CE

-0.61***

(0.15)

<0.001

Generalized trust

Linear

CE

-0.41**

(0.13)

0.002

Catastrophic health expenditures

Had catastrophic health expenditures, 40% threshold (HH level)

Logistic

OR

1.45

(0.43)

0.203

Had catastrophic health expenditures, 30% threshold (HH level)

Logistic

OR

1.05

(0.24)

0.844

Had catastrophic health expenditures, 20% threshold (HH level)

Logistic

OR

1.17

(0.21)

0.370

  1. Notes: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. All variables measured at the individual level, unless when HH-level specified. Robust standard errors (clustered at the household level to account for intra-household correlation) in parenthesis. Regressions were weighted using sampling weights to account for choice-based stratified samples. All binary dependent variables were coded as 0 for “no” and 1 for “yes”
  2. Abbreviations: HH=household, OR=odds ratio, CE=coefficient estimate, CBHI=community-based health insurance, RRR=relative-risk ratio
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