Relationship between Health Insurance Status and the Pattern of Traditional Medicine Utilisation in Ghana

Table 4

Factors associated with TRM use among the insured and the uninsured in multiple logistic models.

Factors	Use of TRM by the insured				Use of TRM by the uninsured
		OR	95% CI	value		OR	95% CI	value
Effectiveness of TRM
Less effective			1.00
More effective	1.476	4.374	1.753–10.913	0.002	1.219	3.383	0.869–13.170	0.039
Nature of occupation
Self-employed			1.00
Public servant	0.437	1.547	0.852–2.811	0.152	−5.687	2.003	0.000–3.592	0.110
Work experience
≤5 years			1.00
>5 years	−0.639	1.528	1.309–1.900	0.019	0.966	2.628	0.726–9.513	0.141

1.00 = reference; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; TRM = traditional medicine; statistically significant at .