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

Table 3 Factor contributing to the intention to contribute more than 5 years service by CHW (multiple logit regression)

Intention to serve communities >5 years	Odds ratio	Std. err.	P value	95 % CI
Confidence in providing services (VS not confident)	1.838	0.648	0.084	0.921	3.669
Age (compared with youngest, <20)
• 20–29	2.353	0.912	0.027	1.101	5.029
• 30–39	4.914	2.397	0.001	1.889	12.783
• 40–49	7.374	4.795	0.002	2.062	26.373
• ≥50	2.683	1.476	0.073	0.912	7.889
Education (compared with grade 5)
• Grade 9	1.037	0.537	0.943	0.376	2.862
• Grade 11	0.656	0.330	0.403	0.245	1.761
• Bachelor or above	0.745	0.484	0.650	0.209	2.659
Recruitment (VS self-application)
• Local midwives	0.383	0.115	0.001	0.212	0.690
• Villagers	2.057	1.311	0.258	0.590	7.173
• Village head	0.568	0.230	0.163	0.257	1.256
Training batch (compared with batched trained before 2000)
• 2000–2011	0.466	0.224	0.112	0.182	1.194
• 2012	0.308	0.153	0.018	0.116	0.815

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