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Table 3 Results of Patients’ Accommodation and Acceptability Dimensions

From: Accessibility crisis of essential medicines at Sudanese primary healthcare facilities: a cross-sectional drugs’ dispensaries assessment and patients’ perspectives

 

N

N %

Mean (SD)

Do you regard this dispensing unit as comfortable?

No

79

12.5%

 

More or less

82

13.0%

 

Yes

469

74.4%

 

Do you regard this dispensing unit as clean?

No

36

5.7%

 

More or less

64

10.2%

 

Yes

530

84.1%

 

Please estimate the waiting time from reaching the dispensing unit till receiving your medicines?

  

21.1 (55.6)

Do you perceive this time as longtime?

Yes

85

13.5%

 

More or less

60

9.5%

 

No

485

77.0%

 

Are the opening hours of this dispensing unit suitable?

No

90

14.3%

 

More or less

73

11.6%

 

Yes

467

74.1%

 

Overall Accommodation score

  

5.0 (1.4)

Do the staff of the dispensing unit treat patients with respect and courtesy?

No, never

14

2.2%

 

Yes, sometimes

39

6.2%

 

Yes, always

577

91.6%

 

Do you regard the service presented at the PHC unit of good quality?

No

30

4.8%

 

More or less

128

20.3%

 

Yes

472

74.9%

 

Is your privacy respected throughout the services?

No, never

41

6.5%

 

Yes, sometimes

24

3.8%

 

Yes, always

565

89.7%

 

Overall acceptability score

  

5.4 (1.0)