Assessing post-abortion care in health facilities in Afghanistan: a cross-sectional study

Table 6 Bivariate and multivariate associations between provider and facility characteristics and provider knowledge and clinical skills in PAC

Characteristics	Bivariate analysis						Multivariate analysis
	Overall knowledge			Overall clinical skills			Overall knowledge			Overall clinical skills
	Coef	SE	P	Coef	SE	P	Coef	SE	P	Coef	SE	P
Provider cadre (ref: midwife)
Doctor	0.061	0.027	0.029	−0.018	0.042	0.670	0.044	0.029	0.135	−0.041	0.046	0.380
Number of years of experience as EmONC provider	−0.002	0.002	0.282	−0.002	−0.640	0.526	−0.001	0.002	0.654	0.000	0.003	0.911
Provider trained in MVA	0.083	0.029	0.004	0.157	0.049	0.002	0.087	0.036	0.016	0.154	0.060	0.011
Health facility type (ref: Comprehensive Health Center)
District Hospital	0.005	0.053	0.930	−0.052	0.083	0.534	0.002	0.060	0.978	0.025	0.094	0.792
Provincial Hospital	0.104	0.051	0.045	0.019	0.082	0.814	0.082	0.057	0.151	0.103	0.090	0.255
Regional Hospital	0.062	0.064	0.339	0.002	0.100	0.984	0.063	0.077	0.412	0.107	0.115	0.352
Specialized Hospital	0.119	0.064	0.066	−0.076	0.100	0.445	0.083	0.074	0.264	0.024	0.115	0.833
Annual number of PAC cases reported at facility	0.000	0.000	0.076	0.000	0.000	0.555	0.000	0.000	0.508	0.000	0.000	0.726

ISSN: 1471-2393