Examining socioeconomic status disparities in facility-based childbirth in Kenya: role of perceived need, accessibility, and quality of care

Table 4 Estimated mediation of the effect on facility delivery by perception variables

	Mediated Effect Coef. [Std. Err]	P-Value	% Of total effect mediated
	Mediated Effect Coef. [Std. Err]	P-Value	Perceived Need	Perceived Financial Accessibility	Perceived Physical Accessibility	Perceived Provision of Care	Perceived Experience of Care	All 5 mediators
Household Wealth
Poorest	Ref.
Poorer	0.07 [0.10]	0.52	0.12 [1.05]	10.3 [19.4]	55.2 [23.0]	19.0 [15.8]	1.81 [5.48]	27.9 [43.3]
Middle	0.15 [0.10]	0.13	0.35 [1.55]	5.80 [11.0]	48.8 [19.9]	9.03 [13.1]	3.28 [5.25]	48.4 [32.1]
Richer/ Richest	0.17 [0.11]	0.12	0.04 [0.24]	2.59 [4.88]	15.0 [5.31]	3.17 [3.30]	0.71[1.26]	14.9 [9.60]
Education
No school/Primary	Ref.
Post-primary/ vocational/Secondary	0.05 [0.09]	0.62	0.24 [0.69]	0.55 [1.82]	2.68 [5.03]	5.36 [3.98]	1.95 [2.05]	5.30 [10.7]
College or above	0.10 [0.10]	0.33	0.45 [1.12]	0.24 [0.84]	0.84 [4.01]	4.52 [5.32]	1.11 [1.39]	5.78 [5.9]
Standard Error in square brackets ‘khb’ rescaling method used to determine mediation

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