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Table 6 Multilevel models of access to PC dimensions with individual patient level covariates

From: A cross-sectional study of socio-demographic factors associated with patient access to primary care in Slovenia

Fixed effects

Communicational access

Cultural access

Financial access

Geographical access

Organizational access

Coefficient (p-value)

Intercept

5.450 (0.000)**

3.787 (0.000)**

1.983 (0.000)**

2.040 (0.000)**

3.360 (0.000)**

Sex

0.047 (0.241)

-0.009 (0.603)

0.002 (0.665)

-0.056 (0.006)**

0.022 (0.586)

Age

0.000 (0.926)

0.002 (0.006)**

0.000 (0.092)

0.000 (0.960)

0.002 (0.285)

Place of birth

-0.109 (0.235)

-0.019 (0.617)

0.004 (0.686)

-0.028 (0.549)

0.197 (0.043)*

Mother’s place of birth

0.093 (0.210)

0.016 (0.618)

0.013 (0.140)

0.038 (0.323)

-0.073 (0.363)

Language proficiency

-0.053 (0.345)

-0.013 (0.583)

-0.003 (0.649)

-0.018 (0.531)

0.049 (0.448)

Educational attainment level

0.029 (0.324)

0.000 (0.982)

0.000 (0.965)

-0.012 (0.411)

-0.027 (0.370)

Unemployed

0.032 (0.700)

-0.016 (0.653)

-0.014 (0.137)

-0.033 (0.441)

-0.038 (0.663)

Student

-0.012 (0.893)

0.048 (0.206)

-0.019 (0.066)

-0.013 (0.773)

0.137 (0.148)

Retired

0.025 (0.709)

-0.019 (0.502)

0.012 (0.119)

-0.071 (0.041)*

-0.085 (0.220)

Household income

-0.037 (0.302)

0.015 (0.342)

0.003 (0.544)

0.026 (0.157)

-0.006 (0.875)

Household with other adults

0.052 (0.296)

0.034 (0.100)

0.008 (0.173)

0.016 (0.540)

0.078 (0.129)

Household with children

0.023 (0.606)

0.013 (0.479)

0.000 (0.974)

0.011 (0.635)

0.037 (0.421)

Health status

-0.031 (0.247)

-0.020 (0.074)

0.000 (0.935)

-0.043 (0.002)**

-0.049 (0.078)

Longstanding condition

-0.027 (0.554)

0.008 (0.681)

0.001 (0.857)

0.021 (0.362)

-0.009 (0.843)

Number of visits/consultations

0.071 (0.001)***

0.023 (0.010)**

0.001 (0.675)

0.003 (0.756)

0.007 (0.760)

Deviance

4,464.281

797.755

-3.371.262

1,903.012

45,001.437

χ2 change (df change=15) 1

-570.775***

-371.134***

301.379***

-130.617***

-6,202.403***

  1. Notes: *significance at the 0.05 level, **significance at the 0.01 level, ***significance at the 0.001 level, 1 Critical values for the χ2 statistics with 15 degrees of freedom are 24.996 (p<0.05), 30.578 (p<0.01), 37.697 (p<0.001).