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. 2015 Apr 21;14:39. doi: 10.1186/s12939-015-0166-y

Table 6.

Multilevel models of access to PC dimensions with individual patient level covariates

Fixed effects Communicational access Cultural access Financial access Geographical access Organizational access
Coefficient (p-value)
Intercept 5.450 (0.000)** 3.787 (0.000)** 1.983 (0.000)** 2.040 (0.000)** 3.360 (0.000)**
Sex 0.047 (0.241) -0.009 (0.603) 0.002 (0.665) -0.056 (0.006)** 0.022 (0.586)
Age 0.000 (0.926) 0.002 (0.006)** 0.000 (0.092) 0.000 (0.960) 0.002 (0.285)
Place of birth -0.109 (0.235) -0.019 (0.617) 0.004 (0.686) -0.028 (0.549) 0.197 (0.043)*
Mother’s place of birth 0.093 (0.210) 0.016 (0.618) 0.013 (0.140) 0.038 (0.323) -0.073 (0.363)
Language proficiency -0.053 (0.345) -0.013 (0.583) -0.003 (0.649) -0.018 (0.531) 0.049 (0.448)
Educational attainment level 0.029 (0.324) 0.000 (0.982) 0.000 (0.965) -0.012 (0.411) -0.027 (0.370)
Unemployed 0.032 (0.700) -0.016 (0.653) -0.014 (0.137) -0.033 (0.441) -0.038 (0.663)
Student -0.012 (0.893) 0.048 (0.206) -0.019 (0.066) -0.013 (0.773) 0.137 (0.148)
Retired 0.025 (0.709) -0.019 (0.502) 0.012 (0.119) -0.071 (0.041)* -0.085 (0.220)
Household income -0.037 (0.302) 0.015 (0.342) 0.003 (0.544) 0.026 (0.157) -0.006 (0.875)
Household with other adults 0.052 (0.296) 0.034 (0.100) 0.008 (0.173) 0.016 (0.540) 0.078 (0.129)
Household with children 0.023 (0.606) 0.013 (0.479) 0.000 (0.974) 0.011 (0.635) 0.037 (0.421)
Health status -0.031 (0.247) -0.020 (0.074) 0.000 (0.935) -0.043 (0.002)** -0.049 (0.078)
Longstanding condition -0.027 (0.554) 0.008 (0.681) 0.001 (0.857) 0.021 (0.362) -0.009 (0.843)
Number of visits/consultations 0.071 (0.001)*** 0.023 (0.010)** 0.001 (0.675) 0.003 (0.756) 0.007 (0.760)
Deviance 4,464.281 797.755 -3.371.262 1,903.012 45,001.437
χ2 change (df change=15) 1 -570.775*** -371.134*** 301.379*** -130.617*** -6,202.403***

Notes: *significance at the 0.05 level, **significance at the 0.01 level, ***significance at the 0.001 level, 1 Critical values for the χ2 statistics with 15 degrees of freedom are 24.996 (p<0.05), 30.578 (p<0.01), 37.697 (p<0.001).