Table 4.
Reason for integrative and decentralized services preference among MMT patients
| Preference for service delivery model | All | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stand-alone | Integrative | p value | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| All | 170 | 33.3 | 340 | 66.7 | 510 | 100.0 | |
| Stratified by current services | |||||||
| MMT + general health | 80 | 38.1 | 130 | 61.9 | 210 | 100.0 | 0.07 |
| MMT + comprehensive HIV services | 90 | 30.3 | 207 | 69.7 | 297 | 100.0 | |
| Reasons | |||||||
| Closer to home, reduced travel cost | 12 | 7.1 | 72 | 21.2 | 84 | 16.5 | <0.01 |
| Fewer visits to different services | 4 | 2.4 | 97 | 28.5 | 101 | 19.8 | <0.01 |
| More convenient in multiple services use | 15 | 8.8 | 181 | 53.2 | 196 | 38.4 | <0.01 |
| Health workers are more aware of patients’ status | 8 | 4.7 | 95 | 27.9 | 103 | 20.2 | <0.01 |
| Better health care quality | 39 | 22.9 | 130 | 38.2 | 169 | 33.1 | <0.01 |
| More privacy | 74 | 43.5 | 32 | 9.4 | 106 | 20.8 | <0.01 |
| Less discrimination | 7 | 4.1 | 4 | 1.2 | 11 | 2.2 | 0.03 |
| Preference for decentralized MMT services at commune level | p value | ||||||
| No | Yes | All | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| All | 194 | 39.2 | 301 | 60.8 | 510 | 100.0 | |
| Stratified by current services | |||||||
| (MMT + GH) | 73 | 35.1 | 135 | 64.9 | 208 | 100.0 | 0.11 |
| MMT + comprehensive HIV services | 121 | 41.2 | 166 | 57.8 | 287 | 100.0 | |
| Reasons | |||||||
| Closer to home, reduced travel cost | 1 | 0.5 | 286 | 95.0 | 287 | 58.0 | <0.01 |
| Fewer visits to different services | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 2.0 | 6 | 1.2 | 0.05 |
| More convenient in multiple services use | 0 | 0.0 | 16 | 5.3 | 16 | 3.2 | <0.01 |
| Health workers are more aware of patients’ status | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | - |
| Better health care quality | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.42 |
| More privacy | 15 | 7.7 | 2 | 0.7 | 17 | 3.4 | <0.01 |
| Less discrimination | 4 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.8 | 0.01 |