Research Article

Patients’ Perception of Morocco’s Medicine Pricing Reform and Determinants of Their Access to Health Care and Medicine

Table 2

Univariate and multivariate analysis of the factors associated with an improvement in the accessibility to medicines after the decline in their prices.

Independent variablesUnivariate analysisMultivariate analysis
95% IC95% IC

Age0.0040.001–0.0070.0200.0030.000–0.0060.059
Sex
 Male0
 Female-0.047-0.162–0.0670.421
Health insurance
 Yes0
 No0.2090.096–0.322<0.0010.1870.066–0.3070.002
Employment
 Yes0
 No-0.047-0.166–0.0730.422
Family situation
 Married0
 Single-0.088-0.309–0.1320.433
 Other-0.091-0.324–0.1420.445
Origin
 Urban0
 Rural-0.161-0.303-0.0190.027-0.064-0.213–0.0850.400
Monthly income
 Without income0
 Less than 2500.011-0.208–0.2310.918-0.077-0.301–0.1470.500
 Between 250 and 5000.166-0.066–0.3970.1610.053-0.183–0.2900.659
 Between 500 and 7000.003-0.208–0.2140.977-0.051-0.261–0.1590.633
 Greater than 700-0.029-0.258–0.2010.807-0.059-0.284–0.1650.604