Table 3.
Bivariate and multivariate analyses of factors associated with travel time >60 minutes
| Background characteristics | Total | Travel time benchmark | P-value | Odds ratio | 95% CI | P-value | ||
| Within 60 minutes | Over 60 minutes | Lower | Higher | |||||
| Day of presentation | n = 4005 | |||||||
| Weekend | 912 | 750 (82.2%) | 162 (17.8%) | 0.61 | – | – | – | – |
| Weekday | 3093 | 2471 (79.9%) | 622 (20.1%) | – | – | – | – | |
| Period of day that journey commenced | n = 4005 | |||||||
| Morning | 986 | 805 (81.6%) | 181 (18.4%) | <0.001 | 2.048 | 1.395 | 3.069 | <0.001 |
| Afternoon | 716 | 557 (77.8%) | 159 (22.2%) | 2.600 | 1.757 | 3.921 | <0.001 | |
| Evening | 613 | 502 (81.9%) | 111 (18.1%) | 2.014 | 1.338 | 3.082 | <0.001 | |
| Night | 374 | 337 (90.1%) | 37 (9.89%) | 1.000 | ||||
| Could not tell | 1316 | 1020 (77.5%) | 784 (22.5%) | |||||
| Referral | n = 4005 | |||||||
| No | 2978 | 2543 (85.4%) | 435 (14.6%) | <0.001 | 1.000 | |||
| Yes | 1027 | 678 (66.0%) | 349 (34.0%) | 3.009 | 2.544 | 3.559 | <0.001 | |
| Type of referral institution | n = 1004 | |||||||
| Another hospital (public) | 163 | 63 (38.7%) | 100 (61.3%) | <0.001 | 3.463 | 2.336 | 5.141 | <0.001 |
| Another hospital (private) | 236 | 165 (69.9%) | 71 (30.1%) | 0.939 | 0.653 | 1.345 | 0.72 | |
| Clinic (public or private) | 78 | 54 (69.2%) | 24 (30.8%) | 0.970 | 0.548 | 1.677 | 0.91 | |
| PHC | 420 | 288 (68.6%) | 132 (31.4%) | 1.000 | ||||
| Traditional birth attendant | 102 | 86 (84.3%) | 16 (15.7%) | 0.406 | 0.214 | 0.732 | 0.002 | |
| Nursing/maternity home | 5 | 4 (80.0%) | 1 (20.0%) | 0.545 | 0.011 | 5.587 | 0.58 | |