Table 3.
Logistic regression model to find out the impact of CHW intervention on screening for hypertension
| Outcome variable: Ever screened for hypertension (Yes/No) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent variables: Intervention, Age, Sex, Caste, Education, Family size, Distance from nearest health facility | ||||||
| Model: Logistic regression | N = 11,105 | |||||
| Variable | Adjusted Odds Ratio | Std. Err. | z | P > z | 95% Confidence Interval | |
| Intervention | Ref (Comparison group) | |||||
| Intervention group | 7.01 | 0.33 | 41.08 | < 0.01 | 6.39 | 7.69 |
| Age | 1.03 | 0.00 | 15.37 | < 0.01 | 1.03 | 1.04 |
| Sex | Ref (Male) | |||||
| Female | 1.97 | 0.09 | 14.45 | < 0.01 | 1.79 | 2.15 |
| Caste | Ref (Scheduled Tribes) | |||||
| Scheduled Castes | 0.92 | 0.07 | -1.03 | 0.30 | 0.79 | 1.07 |
| Other Backward Classes | 0.89 | 0.06 | -1.64 | 0.10 | 0.77 | 1.02 |
| Others | 0.79 | 0.07 | -2.74 | 0.01 | 0.66 | 0.93 |
| Education | Ref (Not Literate) | |||||
| Primary | 1.01 | 0.06 | 0.17 | 0.87 | 0.90 | 1.13 |
| Secondary | 1.14 | 0.07 | 2.02 | 0.04 | 1.00 | 1.29 |
| Above secondary | 1.37 | 0.11 | 3.89 | < 0.01 | 1.17 | 1.60 |
| Family size | 1.00 | 0.01 | -0.02 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 1.02 |
| Distance from nearest facility | 1.06 | 0.02 | 2.76 | 0.01 | 1.02 | 1.10 |