Table 3 Mixed effect analysis of factors associated with barriers to health care access among female youths in Ethiopia, data from 2016 EDHS.
Characteristics | Barriers to healthcare access | Model III (model with individual and community level variables) AOR (95%CI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | |||
Age of youths | 15–19 year | 1090 | 2291 | 0.80 [0.68,0.95] |
20–24 year | 882 | 1880 | 1 | |
Education status of youths | Uneducated | 262 | 968 | 2.26 [1.61,3.18] |
Primary education | 900 | 2433 | 2.21 [1.66,2.95] | |
Secondary | 587 | 597 | 1.24 [0.93, 1.64] | |
Higher education | 223 | 173 | 1 | |
Occupational status of youths | Not working | 1101 | 2527 | 0.97 [0.84,1.12] |
Working | 871 | 1644 | 1 | |
Wealth index | Poor | 376 | 1650 | 1.63 [1.31, 2.05] |
Middle | 299 | 815 | 1.21 [0.98, 1.50] | |
Rich | 1297 | 1706 | 1 | |
Marital status | Married | 1199 | 2301 | 1 |
Unmarried | 773 | 1870 | 1.43 [1.21,1.70] | |
Media exposure | No | 640 | 2399 | 1.67 [1.41,1.98] |
Yes | 1331 | 1773 | 1 | |
Covered by health insurance | No | 1834 | 4009 | 1.07 [0.78, 1.46] |
Yes | 138 | 162 | 1 | |
Residency | Urban | 787 | 681 | 1 |
Rural | 1185 | 3490 | 1.63 [1.05,2.54] | |
Region | Metropolitan | 264 | 192 | 1 |
Large central | 1606 | 3754 | 1.24 [0.78,1.96] | |
Small peripheral | 101 | 226 | 0.94 [0.55, 1.61] | |
Community level poverty | Low | 761 | 2585 | 1 |
High | 1211 | 1586 | 0.79 [0.54, 1.15] | |
Community-level media exposure | Low | 835 | 2791 | 1.45 [1.01,2.08] |
High | 1137 | 1380 | 1 | |
