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Table 5 Factors Affecting Patients’ Acceptability and Accommodation Scores

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

 

Acceptability

Accommodation

Mean (SD)

p (t/F)

Mean (SD)

p* (t/F)

Gender

Female

5.4 (1.0)

0.586 (-0.544)

5.00 (1.44)

0.966 (-0.043)

Male

5.5 (1.0)

5.01 (1.34)

Marital status

Single

5.2 (1.2)

0.002* (4.96)

4.95 (1.34)

0.745 (0.41)

Married

5.5 (1.0)

5.00 (1.43)

Divorced

5.6 (0.8)

5.28 (1.4)

Widowed

5.8 (0.6)

5.06 (1.47)

Educational level

 

5.6 (0.8)

0.242 (1.348)

5.54 (0.91)

0.007* (3.234)

Primary

5.6 (0.9)

5.08 (1.26)

Secondary

5.4 (1.1)

4.90 (1.49)

University

5.3 (1.1)

4.83 (1.54)

Higher Ecducation

5.4 (0.9)

5.07 (1.39)

Informal education ‘Khalwa’

5.7 (0.8)

5.17 (1.03)

Occupational status

Non-occupied

5.4 (1.1)

0.269 (-1.107)

4.96 (1.45)

0.338 (-0.958)

Occupied

5.5 (0.9)

5.07 (1.35)

Locality

Omdurman

5.2 (1.3)

0.001* (7.09)

5.04 (1.28)

< 0.001* (14.8)

Khartoum North

5.6 (0.8)

5.45 (0.99)

Khartoum

5.4 (1.0)

4.75 (1.58)

Do you have health insurance?

Yes

5.4 (1.0)

0.378 (0.883)

4.93 (1.33)

0.372 (-0.894)

No

5.3 (1.1)

5.07 (1.32)

  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