A Cross-Sectional Study to Examine Factors Associated with Primary Health Care Service Utilization among Older Adults in the Irbid Governorate of Jordan
Table 3
Binary logistic regression analysis of predictors of primary health care service utilization of older adults in the past 1, 6, and 12 months.
PHC service utilization in the past 1 month
PHC service utilization in the past 6 months
PHC service utilization in the past 12 months
OR
CIs
OR
CIs
OR
CIs
Lower
Upper
Lower
Upper
Lower
Upper
Predisposing factors
Age
0.98
0.94
1.02
1.00
0.95
1.05
0.97
0.92
1.03
Education level
No education
1.37
0.37
5.03
0.76
0.14
4.00
3.26
0.56
18.80
Primary education
0.66
0.24
1.82
0.45
0.13
1.51
1.50
0.44
5.07
Secondary and higher education#
1.00
—
—
1.00
—
—
1.00
—
—
Employment status
Unemployed
1.49
0.11
19.59
1.99
0.20
19.5
2.62
0.23
29.02
Retired
1.40
0.11
17.40
1.82
0.20
16.1
4.57
0.44
47.19
Employed∧
1.00
—
—
1.00
—
—
1.00
—
—
Tobacco use
0.78
0.34
1.77
0.78
0.30
2.03
0.83
0.30
2.30
Need factors
Chronic illnesses
13.3**
3.61
49.12
19.6**
7.67
50.2
17.9**
6.97
0.02
Perceived general health today
0.92
0.67
1.26
1.03
0.61
1.75
0.65
0.42
1.03
PCS score
0.97
0.93
1.02
Self-perceived general health in the past 6 months
0.66
0.37
1.17
Self-perceived general health in the past 12 months
0.96
0.62
1.48
Reference group. ∧Reference group. Note. PCS: physical component summary score of SF-12v2. OR: odds ratio. CIs: 95% confidence interval. **OR statistics is significant at the 0.001 level.
