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Table 4 Factors Affecting Patients’ Accessibility and Affordability Scores

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

 

Accessibility

Affordability

Mean (SD)

p (t/F)

Mean (SD)

P* (t/F)

Gender

Female

3.7 (0.95)

0.413 (-0.82)

1.56 (1.15)

0.167 (1.38)

Male

3.84 (1.18)

1.42 (1.03)

Marital status

Single

3.46 (1.0)

0.047* (2.69)

1.78 (1.04)

0.003* (4.75)

Married

3.78 (1.0)

1.44 (1.1)

Divorced

3.50 (1.05)

1.88 (1.27)

Widowed

4.4 (0.97)

1.22 (1.24)

Educational level

Illiterate

4.15 (0.99)

0.355 (1.114)

1.27 (1.14)

0.375 (1.071)

Primary

3.81 (1.01)

1.55 (1.12)

Secondary

3.68 (1.01)

1.50 (1.10)

University

3.61 (1.04)

1.60 (1.11)

Higher Education

3.43 (0.79)

1.55 (1.24)

Informal education ‘Khalwa’

4.0 (1.0)

1.67 (0.98)

Occupational status

Unemployed

3.75 (0.94)

0.813 (0.236)

1.52 (1.13)

0.889 (0.139)

Employed

3.71 (1.1)

1.51 (1.0)

Locality

Omdurman

3.85 (1.06)

0.236 (1.479)

1.48 (1.1)

< 0.001* (23.66)

Khartoum North

3.91 (1.14)

1.98 (1.07)

Khartoum

3.63 (0.93)

1.29 (1.08)

Do you have health insurance?

Yes

3.71 (1.03)

0.433 (-0.786)

1.53 (1.12)

0.703 (0.382)

No

3.87 (0.88)

1.48 (1.16)

  1. *As for the tests, we used t-test when studying the difference in an index when the variable has two groups, and ANOVA when the variable has more than two