Quality of intrapartum care at Mulago national referral hospital, Uganda: clients’ perspective

Table 2 Linear regression coefficients of overall mean of quality of care indicators by clients’ characteristics

Variable	Bi-variate analyses		Multi-variate analyses		P-value
	β 95% CI		β 95% CI
Age group (years)
18–19 (reference)
20–24	−0.67	−4.53 3.18	−0.64	−5.35 4.07	0.7
25–29	−3.33	−8.25 1.58	−3.31	−10.36 3.73	0.4
≥ 30	−3.41	−21.28 14.46	−7.32	−26.9 12.27	0.5
Educational level
No education (reference)
Primary	1.59	−5.46 8.65	0.62	−6.75 7.98	0.8
Secondary	6.03	−0.91 12.97	5.27	−2.15 12.69	0.2
Post secondary (college/university)	8.05	0.29 15.80*	6.81	0.85 15.46	0.023*
Current occupation
Housework (reference)
Employed/salaried	0.63	−3.76 5.02	−0.58	−5.31 4.15	0.8
Self employed/business	0.95	−2.67 4.57	1.72	−2.15 5.59	0.4
Current marital status
Never married (reference)
Currently married	0.51	−4.53 5.55	−0.22	−3.15 5.09	0.9
Total number of children ever born
1 (reference)
2–3	−3.13	−6.62 0.37	−2.67	−1.98 0.46	0.2
4–5	−6.14	−10.8 -1.45*	−4.04	−3.65 -0.03	0.04*
6+	−1.71	−7.9 4.48	1.58	−3.46 1.82	0.7
Place of residence
Urban (reference)
Rural	4.92	0.36 9.46*	5.67	0.95 10.38	0.019*
Referral
No (reference)
Yes	-.38	−3.49 2.72	−0.01	−3.16 3.14	0.9

Key: β, Beta coefficients are the regression parameters from the overall linear models (bi-variate and multi-variate analyses). Positive values indicate higher quality relative to the referent variable category level, while negative values indicate lower quality compared with the referent category.
*statistically significant at p-valve ≤ 0.05, 95% CI excludes a zero (0).

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