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. 2015 Jun 25;5(2):020401. doi: 10.7189/jogh.05.020401

Table 3.

Child health care seeking from a recommended provider (full model)

Fever care seeking from facility ARI care seeking from formal HCW Diarrhea care seeking from formal or informal biomedical provider Deworming treatment

Odds ratio (95% CI)
P
Odds ratio (95% CI)
P
Odds ratio (95% CI)
P
Odds ratio (95% CI)
P
Distance quartile:








closest
Ref.
Ref.*
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.*
second
0.40 (0.18–0.89)
0.03
0.55 (0.10–3.10)
0.49
2.01 (0.86–4.71)
0.11
1.31 (0.60–2.85)
0.49
third
0.15 (0.05–0.43)
0.001
0.14 (0.00–5.43)
0.28
1.80 (0.64–5.10)
0.26
1.70 (0.66–4.40)
0.26
farthest
0.06 (0.03–0.33)
<0.001
0.05 (0.00–1.02)
0.05
0.87 (0.35–2.17)
0.76
0.16 (0.07–0.38)
<0.001
Moto path
0.56 (0.25–1.22)
0.14
4.35 (0.66–28.81)
0.12
1.31 (0.57–3.02)
0.51
0.47 (0.21–1.07)
0.07
Gold mining village
1.66 (0.69–3.98)
0.24
0.01 (0.00–0.09)
<0.001
0.85 (0.36–1.98)
0.69
0.87 (0.41–1.84)
0.70
Maternal age
0.96 (0.92–1.00)
0.04
0.92 (0.75–1.12)
0.39
1.03 (0.98–1.07)
0.27
1.03 (1.00–1.06)
0.07
Married mother
0.27 (0.11–0.69)
0.008
0.40 (0.04–3.65)
0.41
0.92 (0.40–2.11)
0.84
1.20 (0.54–2.67)
0.65
Refugee
0.54 (0.21–1.37)
0.19
7.85 (0.81–76.02)
0.07
0.79 (0.26–2.41)
0.67
1.43 (0.49–4.14)
0.50
Maternal education:








none
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
primary
0.50 (0.26–0.98)
0.04
0.87 (0.15–4.963)
0.87
2.62 (1.25–5.52)
0.01
1.68 (0.97–2.92)
0.06
any secondary
0.51 (0.19–1.37)
0.17
9.63 (1.11–83.64)
0.04
3.36 (1.14–9.88)
0.03
0.97 (0.45–2.11)
0.94
Child’s age:








<1 year
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.
Ref.


1–2 years
3.56 (1.45–8.74)
0.007
0.22 (0.02–2.62)
0.22
2.98 (1.29–6.93)
0.01
Ref.
Ref.
2–3 years
3.00 (1.17–7.71)
0.02
0.13 (0.02–0.99)
0.05
1.53 (0.60–3.87)
0.36
1.94 (1.01–3.74)
0.05
3–4 years
3.02 (1.20–7.57)
0.02
0.39 (0.07–2.13)
0.27
2.62 (1.03–6.57)
0.04
2.95 (1.43–6.07)
0.005
4–5 years
1.76 (0.71–4.36)
0.21
0.22 (0.03–1.47)
0.11
1.22 (0.51–2.90)
0.64
2.63 (1.32–5.21)
0.007
Female child 1.01 (0.60–1.68) 0.98 0.25 (0.05–1.31) 0.10 0.93 (0.51–1.70) 0.80 1.09 (0.65–1.81) 0.74

ARI – acute respiratory infection, HCW – health care worker

*P ≤ 0.001, test for trend across distance quartiles