Table 1.
Association between compliance with Ghana STGs for ambulatory pneumonia management and patients’ sociodemographic factors
| Variable | Total, n (%) | Compliance with STG |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yes, n (%) | no, n (%) | |||
| Gender | 0.547 | |||
| male | 723 (37.50) | 241 (33.3) | 482 (66.7) | |
| female | 1206 (62.50) | 386 (32.0) | 820 (68.0) | |
| Marital status | 0.000 | |||
| single | 1422 (73.70) | 509 (35.80) | 913 (64.20) | |
| married | 507 (26.30) | 118 (23.30) | 389 (76.70) | |
| Employment status | 0.000 | |||
| employed | 687 (35.60) | 168 (24.50) | 519 (75.55) | |
| unemployed | 1242 (64.40) | 459 (37.00) | 783 (63.04) | |
| Payment type | 0.229 | |||
| out-of-pocket | 55 (2.85) | 22 (40.00) | 33 (60.00) | |
| NHIS | 1874 (97.15) | 605 (32.30) | 1269 (67.70) | |
| Age category | 0.000 | |||
| 0–12 years | 807 (41.84) | 332 (41.14) | 475 (58.86) | |
| 13–18 years | 164 (8.50) | 68 (41.46) | 96 (58.54) | |
| 19–60 years | 620 (32.14) | 146 (23.55) | 474 (76.45) | |
| >60 years | 338 (17.52) | 81 (23.96) | 257 (76.04) | |
Variables with P values highlighted in bold showed statistically significant association with adherence to guideline after χ2 test.
NHIS, National Health Insurance Scheme.