Table 3.

Factors associated with relational continuity of care.

Variable	COR (95% CI) p-value	AOR (95% CI) p-value
Age (years)
<40	Ref
40–49	0.87 (0.21–3.39) 0.840
50–59	2.19 (0.58–8.36) 0.248
60–69	1.39 (0.37–5.20) 0.620
70+	1.21 (0.32–4.61) 0.774
Sex
Male	Ref	Ref
Female	2.13 (1.34–3.37) 0.001	1.91 (1.06–3.45) 0.031*
Level of education
No formal education	Ref	Ref
Primary	1.25 (0.59–2.67) 0.561	1.87 (0.77–4.56) 0.170
JSS/JHS/middle school	3.19 (1.79–5.67) <0.0001	3.08 (1.57–6.02) 0.001
SSS/SHS/O and A “level”	1.90 (0.96–3.77) 0.065	2.35 (1.04–5.33) 0.041
Technical/vocational	6.88 (2.79–16.97) <0.0001	4.62 (1.73–12.35) 0.002
Tertiary	3.07 (1.02–9.23) 0.045	5.41 (1.28–22.82) 0.020
Occupation
Unemployed	Ref
Formal sector worker	2.13 (0.47–9.50) 0.324
Informal sector worker	1.17 (0.37–3.67) 0.789
Retired	2.12 (0.62–7.28) 0.234
Marital status
Single	Ref
Currently married	0.92 (0.18–4.84) 0.925
Currently not married	0.64 (0.12–3.48) 0.603
Religion
Christianity	Ref
Islam	0.53 (0.33–0.85) 0.009
Health insurance
Yes	Ref
No	2.37 (0.12–49.65) 0.579
Type of insurance
NHIS	Ref
Private insurance	0.39 (0.12–1.23) 0.109
Patients' satisfaction
Not satisfied	Ref
Partially satisfied	0.07 (0.01–2.33) 0.135
Satisfied	0.43 (0.03–9.11) 0.591
	COR	AOR
	COR	AOR
Variable	OR (95% CI) p-value	OR (95% CI) p-value
Patients' adherence to management of diabetes
Poor adherence	Ref	Ref
Good adherence	1.92 (1.05–3.48) 0.033	2.35 (1.11–4.96) 0.025*
Flexible continuity of care
Low	Ref	Ref
High	7.57 (4.73–12.10) <0.001	4.62 (2.78–7.68) <0.001*
Team continuity of care
Low	Ref	Ref
High	5.35 (3.12–9.16) 0.006	17.95 (0.94–34.22) 0.055
Longitudinal continuity of care
Low	Ref	Ref
High	0.18 (0.11–0.30) <0.001	0.35 (0.19–0.64) 0.001*
High		0.29 (0.16–0.52) <0.001*

^*Statistically significant.