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. 2022 Sep 24;22:1821. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14171-z

Table 6.

Multivariate models, cough survey (dependent variable is whether medical care was sought)

pro log pro_int log_int pro_chi
Cough duration 0.0211* 0.0345+ 0.0202* 0.0328 0.0547**
[0.0096] [0.0191] [0.0100] [0.0204] [0.0202]
Cough caused extreme pain 0.8242** 1.3778** 0.8748** 1.4805** 0.6636+
[0.2855] [0.4963] [0.3012] [0.5317] [0.4021]
Age −0.0459+ −0.0739+ − 0.0458* − 0.0750+ − 0.3453*
[0.0234] [0.0432] [0.0228] [0.0410] [0.1735]
Age squared 0.0006+ 0.0009 0.0006+ 0.0009 0.0166+
[0.0003] [0.0007] [0.0003] [0.0006] [0.0090]
Female −0.0791 −0.148 −0.743 −1.3225 0.187
[0.2346] [0.4182] [0.7103] [1.2908] [0.3326]
Ever had lung disease 0.6274* 1.0551* 0.5731* 0.9722* 0.4161
[0.2627] [0.4666] [0.2662] [0.4708] [0.3831]
Years of schooling −0.0409 − 0.0674 − 0.0435 − 0.0708 − 0.0186
[0.0323] [0.0555] [0.0319] [0.0540] [0.0379]
Household income −0.0096 −0.0428 − 0.0162 −0.0506 − 0.3177
[0.1333] [0.2424] [0.1314] [0.2346] [0.2529]
Household size 0.2210** 0.3729** 0.1237 0.2002 0.1513+
[0.0769] [0.1378] [0.1259] [0.2264] [0.0874]
Has time to seek health care 0.0565 0.0548 0.0388 0.0259 −0.1728
[0.2674] [0.4498] [0.2665] [0.4471] [0.3553]
Poor 0.0394 0.05 0.0233 0.0109 −0.0046
[0.2919] [0.5255] [0.2930] [0.5267] [0.3930]
Has health insurance 0.4803 0.7895 0.4547 0.7318 −0.0821
[0.4039] [0.6859] [0.4011] [0.6775] [0.6626]
Time to health unit −0.0006 0.0004 0.0019 0.0044 −0.0035
[0.0098] [0.0198] [0.0099] [0.0195] [0.0107]
Waiting time in the health unit −0.002 − 0.0034 − 0.0022 − 0.0037 −0.0006
[0.0015] [0.0026] [0.0015] [0.0027] [0.0016]
Resorts to nonprofessional care −1.0307+ − 1.7512+ − 1.0017 −1.7174
[0.6113] [1.0464] [0.6240] [1.0696]
Cough occurred in the dry season 0.7812** 1.2846** 0.8089*** 1.3378**
[0.2439] [0.4284] [0.2455] [0.4315]
Female * household size 0.1463 0.2572
[0.1494] [0.2683]
Intercept −1.3504 − 2.0615 −0.8489 − 1.1943 2.0861
[0.9920] [1.7160] [1.0788] [1.8517] [2.1098]
N 168 168 168 168 89
r2_p 0.2538 0.249 0.2585 0.2539 0.208
chi2 55.8248 46.4543 55.6801 46.5984 24.4023
p 0 0.0001 0 0.0001 0.0409
ll −79.2711 −79.7813 −78.7682 − 79.2529 −46.8759

The children model with dummies indicating the child’s relative who responded to the questions was not globally significant either in logit or probit form and thus was omitted. Without such variables, only the probit model was globally significant