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Table 2 Factor contributing to the confidence of providing services by CHWs (multiple logit regression)

From: Community health worker in hard-to-reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling primary health care service gaps

Feeling confident

Odds ratio

Std. err.

P value

95 % CI

Age (compared with youngest, <20)

 • 20–29

1.545

0.661

0.308

0.669

3.572

 • 30–39

2.511

1.216

0.057

0.972

6.487

 • 40–49

6.363

4.026

0.003

1.841

21.992

 • ≥50

7.442

4.608

0.001

2.212

25.045

Education (compared with grade 5)

 • Grade 9

1.013

0.475

0.978

0.404

2.539

 • Grade 11

1.125

0.537

0.805

0.442

2.867

 • Bachelor or above

0.950

0.608

0.936

0.271

3.331

Recruitment (VS self-application)

 • Local midwives

0.944

0.307

0.859

0.499

1.786

 • Villagers

1.450

0.734

0.463

0.538

3.912

 • Village head

0.798

0.303

0.552

0.379

1.679

Training batch (compared with batched trained before 2000)

 • 2000–2011

1.037

0.442

0.933

0.449

2.393

 • 2012

1.269

0.588

0.606

0.512

3.145

  1. Note: pseudo R2 = 0.0604
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