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Table 5 Association of in-facility delivery with maternal characteristics, household characteristics, intervention exposures, and barriers to carea

From: Health and wealth in Mesoamerica: findings from Salud Mesomérica 2015

Characteristic

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

(N = 15,563)

(N = 15,494)

(N = 14,904)

Pseudo-R2 = 0.297

Pseudo-R2 = 0.301

Pseudo-R2 = 0.306

 

OR (95 % CI)

p-value

OR (95 % CI)

p-value

OR (95 % CI)

p-value

Country

      

 GTM

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

 HND

15.58 (11.37-21.37)

<0.001

15.13 (11.08-20.64)

<0.001

16.36 (11.83-22.61)

<0.001

 MEX

3.17 (2.40-4.18)

<0.001

3.17 (2.40-4.18)

<0.001

2.17 (1.58-2.98)

<0.001

 NIC

28.53 (20.00-40.69)

<0.001

27.42 (19.20-39.17)

<0.001

28.09 (19.59-40.29)

<0.001

 PAN

16.59 (10.12-27.20)

<0.001

19.27 (11.34-32.73)

<0.001

20.07 (11.73-34.35)

<0.001

 SLV

19.53 (14.58-26.17)

<0.001

17.64 (12.76-24.38)

<0.001

20.42 (14.75-28.28)

<0.001

Household expenditure

      

 Quintile 1

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

 Quintile 2

1.30 (1.07-1.58)

0.009

1.31 (1.07-1.60)

0.010

1.31 (1.07-1.61)

0.010

 Quintile 3

1.59 (1.28-1.97)

<0.001

1.59 (1.28-1.99)

<0.001

1.53 (1.22-1.91)

<0.001

 Quintile 4

2.39 (1.92-2.99)

<0.001

2.38 (1.90-2.99)

<0.001

2.24 (1.78-2.83)

<0.001

 Quintile 5

3.06 (2.43-3.85)

<0.001

2.98 (2.37-3.77)

<0.001

2.82 (2.23-3.56)

<0.001

Asset score

3.74 (1.91-7.33)

<0.001

3.81 (1.88-7.72)

<0.001

2.41 (1.18-4.92)

0.016

Attained education level

      

 No schooling

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

 Primary school or literacy course

1.61 (1.35-1.92)

<0.001

1.58 (1.34-1.88)

<0.001

1.46 (1.22-1.75)

<0.001

 Secondary school or higher

3.20 (2.56-3.99)

<0.001

2.98 (2.39-3.72)

<0.001

2.64 (2.11-3.31)

<0.001

Age (years)

      

 15-19

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

 20-24

1.18 (0.97-1.43)

0.097

1.11 (0.91-1.37)

0.294

1.10 (0.89-1.35)

0.392

 25-29

1.49 (1.22-1.82)

<0.001

1.33 (1.08-1.64)

0.007

1.28 (1.03-1.58)

0.025

 30-34

2.38 (1.84-3.07)

<0.001

2.08 (1.61-2.70)

<0.001

1.99 (1.53-2.59)

<0.001

 35-39

3.76 (2.78-5.09)

<0.001

3.18 (2.36-4.29)

<0.001

3.05 (2.23-4.17)

<0.001

 40-44

3.41 (2.35-4.96)

<0.001

2.83 (1.94-4.13)

<0.001

2.62 (1.78-3.84)

<0.001

 45-49

4.81 (2.62-8.83)

<0.001

3.79 (2.05-7.02)

<0.001

3.46 (1.85-6.50)

<0.001

Parity

0.72 (0.69-0.76)

<0.001

0.75 (0.71-0.78)

<0.001

0.75 (0.72-0.79)

<0.001

Household size

  

0.96 (0.92-1.00)

0.043

0.96 (0.92-1.00)

0.069

Head of household is female

  

1.29 (1.01-1.64)

0.038

1.24 (0.96-1.60)

0.093

Occupation

      

 Employed and working for money

  

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

 Homemaker

  

0.71 (0.53-0.95)

0.023

0.73 (0.54-0.98)

0.037

 Otherb

  

1.18 (0.75-1.88)

0.472

1.25 (0.79-2.00)

0.341

Marital status

      

 Single

  

1.00 (ref)

 

1.00 (ref)

 

 Married

  

1.25 (0.94-1.65)

0.127

1.23 (0.91-1.64)

0.173

 Union

  

0.97 (0.75-1.24)

0.780

0.95 (0.73-1.23)

0.674

 Divorced, separated, widowed, other

  

0.93 (0.68-1.26)

0.625

0.97 (0.71-1.32)

0.839

Insured

    

1.77 (1.40-2.24)

<0.001

Travel time to usual health facilityc

    

1.00 (1.00-1.00)

0.869

Received counseling from a community health worker in the past month

    

0.72 (0.59-0.89)

0.002

Exposure to any media in the past week (newspaper, radio, television)

    

1.31 (1.11-1.54)

0.001

Barriers to seeking medical care

      

 Mother had no recent illness

    

1.15 (0.86-1.53)

0.348

 Care sought for mother’s recent illness

    

1.27 (0.90-1.79)

0.180

Among mothers who were recently ill and did not seek care

      

 Care is too expensive

    

1.42 (0.77-2.60)

0.258

 Health center is too far away

    

1.10 (0.53-2.28)

0.788

 Could not get transportation

    

0.69 (0.38-1.24)

0.210

 Facility infrastructure is poor

    

2.72 (1.01-7.30)

0.048

 Facility has insufficient drugs

    

1.09 (0.72-1.65)

0.676

 Health center is not well equipped

    

0.59 (0.30-1.19)

0.139

 Staff are difficult to deal with

    

1.67 (0.84-3.34)

0.146

 Staff is not knowledgeable

    

2.38 (0.59-9.58)

0.224

 No trust in staff

    

0.71 (0.32-1.61)

0.417

 Could not get permission to go to the doctor

    

0.59 (0.03-10.85)

0.720

 Did not want to go alone

    

0.76 (0.28-2.12)

0.606

 Too busy with work or children

    

0.69 (0.42-1.16)

0.164

  1. CI confidence interval, GTM Guatemala, HND Honduras, MEX Mexico, NIC Nicaragua, OR odds ratio, PAN Panama, SLV El Salvador
  2. aModels are adjusted for all covariates listed in the corresponding column. All estimates are survey-weighted. Pseudo-R2 is based on the unweighted logistic regression model fit
  3. bThis includes women who reported being employed but not working during the week prior to the survey, a current student, retired, disabled, or unemployed
  4. cIf travel time to the usual health facility was missing, we used first the travel time to the closest facility; if that was also missing we used the median travel time to the usual health facility for the segment