Table 3.
Prevalence of healthcare accessing barriers among the reproductive married women for taking treatment or advice when they sick by background characteristics
| Healthcare Accessing Barriers (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Frequency Percentage
|
Getting permission to go for treatment | Getting money for treatment | Distance to health facility |
Not wanting to go alone |
At least one barrier in accessing healthcare |
|
Living Standard (p-value) |
< 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Low | 57.59 | 12.0 | 52.8 | 47.5 | 49.3 | 73.9 |
| Moderate | 15.65 | 11.0 | 36.0 | 37.1 | 44.8 | 64.1 |
| High | 26.76 | 7.9 | 25.3 | 27.0 | 34.1 | 49.8 |
|
Spousal Education (p-value) |
< 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Both Uneducated | 36.3 | 12.6 | 58.4 | 48 | 49.2 | 76.5 |
| Wife Educated | 16.3 | 11.6 | 44.8 | 42.1 | 46.4 | 69.2 |
| Husband Educated | 9.8 | 11.5 | 45.9 | 41.2 | 47.5 | 68.5 |
| Both Educated | 37.6 | 8.3 | 26.1 | 32.1 | 38.4 | 53.7 |
| Women’s Current Age (p-value) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.013 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| 15–20 | 10.0 | 13.5 | 36.0 | 40.7 | 53.3 | 69.0 |
| 20–30 | 36.1 | 10.7 | 39.0 | 38.8 | 44.0 | 63.4 |
| 30–40 | 32.0 | 10.0 | 45.7 | 41.3 | 41.9 | 65.9 |
| 40–49 | 21.9 | 10.7 | 47.9 | 41.4 | 45.3 | 68.8 |
|
Early Marriage (p-value) |
< 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Yes | 73.6 | 11.3 | 45.8 | 42.7 | 46.4 | 68.8 |
| No | 26.4 | 9.2 | 34.5 | 34 | 39.4 | 57.9 |
| Empowerment (p-value) | < 0.001 | 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Non-empowered | 9.6 | 17.2 | 39.9 | 45.0 | 54.5 | 71.4 |
| Partially Empowered | 38.6 | 12.9 | 44.2 | 43.7 | 47.2 | 70.0 |
| Fully Empowered | 51.7 | 7.9 | 42.3 | 37.1 | 40.7 | 61.9 |
| Employment Status (p-value) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| No Paid Work | 62.7 | 11.4 | 39.1 | 39.2 | 44.4 | 63.7 |
| Agricultural/Unskilled/Domestic Services | 23.4 | 11.0 | 54.4 | 47.6 | 49.6 | 75.8 |
| Skilled Labor/Sales | 8.3 | 8.1 | 44.3 | 35.8 | 39.1 | 64.4 |
| Professional/Technical/ Services | 5.6 | 6.8 | 34.2 | 30.2 | 33.1 | 51.8 |
| Intimate Partner Violence (p-value) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| No | 80.3 | 9.8 | 40.7 | 38.1 | 42.6 | 63.3 |
| Yes | 19.7 | 14.7 | 51.4 | 49.7 | 52.5 | 76.6 |
| Religion (p-value) | 0.350 | 0.028 | 0.015 | 0.008 | 0.052 | |
| Non-Muslim | 9.9 | 10.1 | 45.2 | 43 | 47.4 | 68 |
| Muslim | 90.1 | 10.8 | 42.5 | 40.1 | 44.2 | 65.7 |
| Number of Living Children (p-value) | 0.489 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.003 | < 0.001 | |
| ≤ 2 | 64.4 | 10.6 | 38.4 | 38.1 | 43.7 | 63.1 |
| > 2 | 35.6 | 11.0 | 50.7 | 44.5 | 46.0 | 71.0 |
| Place of Residence (p-value) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| Rural | 63.6 | 12 | 45.8 | 45.6 | 48.3 | 70.4 |
| Urban | 36.4 | 8.5 | 37.5 | 31.2 | 38 | 58.2 |
| Region (p-value) | 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.070 | 0.525 | < 0.001 | |
| Eastern | 25.2 | 11.9 | 40.5 | 40 | 43.8 | 62.8 |
| Central | 36.4 | 9.8 | 44.1 | 41.5 | 44.7 | 66.5 |
| Western | 38.4 | 10.9 | 43.1 | 39.6 | 44.8 | 67.5 |
| All-weather Road (p-value) | 0.803 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |
| No | 14.9 | 10.6 | 51 | 52.1 | 50 | 74.1 |
| Yes | 85.1 | 10.8 | 41.4 | 38.3 | 43.6 | 64.5 |