Table 5.

Multivariate logistic regression on the effects of medicines availability and stock-outs healthcare utilization

Variable, odds ratio (confidence interval)	Univariate analysis (255)		Multivariate analysis (255)
	OR (95% CI)	P-value	OR (95% CI)	P-value
Age of respondents	0.998 (0.98–1.02)	0.869	0.992 (0.97–1.01)	0.441
Household head being male	1.185 (0.69–2.03)	0.538	1.365 (0.43–4.25)	0.591
Household head being married	0.629 (0.33–1.20)	0.161	0.532 (0.24–1.15)	0.107
Household self-reported good health statusa	1.737 (1.08–2.78)	0.021	1.801 (1.06–3.05)	0.029
Household being a CHF membershipa	2.212 (1.11–4.42)	0.024	1.974 (1.23–3.17)	0.005
Level of trust to facility staffs being great	1.359 (0.82–2.25)	0.234	1.307 (0.76–2.24)	0.338
Household head received healthcare educationb	1.912 (1.23–2.98)	0.004	2.745 (1.84–4.08)	0.000
Waiting time at the health facility <60 min	1.783 (0.85–3.74)	0.126	2.015 (0.75–5.44)	0.167
Distance to the facility <5 km	1.107 (0.56–2.19)	0.769	1.624 (0.74–3.54)	0.225
Minutes to the closest facility	0.998 (0.99–1.00)	0.558
Household with at least one person with chronic illness	0.856 (0.60–1.22)	0.397	0.872 (0.54–1.40)	0.575
Facilities without any stock-outs for the past 3 monthsa	4.869 (1.75–20.18)	0.029	3.496 (1.02–12.04)	0.047
Household size	0.994 (0.89–1.11)	0.909	0.986 (0.77–1.26)	0.908
Wealth index value (proxy of income)	0.868 (0.76–0.99)	0.043	0.908 (0.80–1.02)	0.116
Total number of staffs	1.089 (0.79–1.49)	0.596
TASAF beneficiary	1.856 (0.79–4.35)	0.154	0.991 (0.50–1.95)	0.978
Waiver/exemption of any household member	1.117 (0.56–2.21)	0.751	1.056 (0.49–2.28)	0.889
Constant			0.131 (0.03–0.59)	0.010
Number of observations			251
Wald chi2 (14)			1596.77
Prob > chi2			0.000
Pseudo R2			0.1117

^aSignificance at 5% level (corresponds to the multivariate results).

^bSignificance at 1% level (corresponds to the multivariate results).

TASAF, Tanzania Social Action Fund.