Table 7.
Logistic regression model to find out the impact of CHW intervention on taking hypertension medication regularly
| Outcome variable: Medication consumed on all preceding seven days (Yes/No) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent variables: Intervention, Age, Sex, Caste, Education, Family size, Distance from nearest health facility | ||||||
| Model: Logistic regression | N = 1464 | |||||
| Variable | Adjusted Odds Ratio | Std. Err. | z | P > z | 95% Confidence Interval | |
| Intervention | Ref (Comparison group) | |||||
| Intervention group | 2.09 | 0.17 | 9.06 | < 0.01 | 1.78 | 2.45 |
| Age | 1.08 | 0.00 | 25.19 | < 0.01 | 1.07 | 1.08 |
| Sex | Ref (Male) | |||||
| Female | 2.04 | 0.16 | 8.95 | < 0.01 | 1.74 | 2.38 |
| Caste | Ref (Scheduled Tribes) | |||||
| Scheduled Castes | 0.99 | 0.13 | -0.10 | 0.92 | 0.75 | 1.29 |
| Other Backward Classes | 1.06 | 0.13 | 0.48 | 0.63 | 0.83 | 1.35 |
| Others | 1.35 | 0.19 | 2.14 | 0.03 | 1.03 | 1.79 |
| Education | Ref (Not Literate) | |||||
| Primary | 1.08 | 0.10 | 0.82 | 0.42 | 0.90 | 1.30 |
| Secondary | 1.15 | 0.13 | 1.31 | 0.19 | 0.93 | 1.43 |
| Above secondary | 1.21 | 0.16 | 1.39 | 0.16 | 0.93 | 1.58 |
| Family size | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.85 | 0.40 | 0.99 | 1.04 |
| Distance from nearest facility | 1.01 | 0.03 | 0.41 | 0.68 | 0.96 | 1.06 |