Assessing competence of mid-level providers delivering primary health care in India: a clinical vignette-based study in Chhattisgarh state

Table 5 Multi-variate linear (ordinary least squares) regression for competence score

Score	Coefficient	Std. Err	P value	[95% Conf. Interval]
Age	0.010	0.035	0.785	− 0.060	0.079
Type of provider
CHO	Reference
RMA	1.226	0.400	0.002	0.438	2.014
MBBS	1.637	0.339	< 0.001	0.969	2.305
Gender
Male	Reference
Female	0.172	0.179	0.339	− 0.181	0.525
Type of area
Tribal	Reference
Non-tribal	0.285	0.151	0.060	− 0.012	0.582
No. of years of experience as a provider
< 1 year	Reference
1–3 years	0.048	0.264	0.856	− 0.471	0.567
3–6 years	0.110	0.439	0.803	− 0.755	0.974
6–9 years	− 0.251	0.353	0.477	− 0.947	0.444
> 9 years	0.014	0.287	0.962	− 0.552	0.580
Distance of HWC from district headquarter
< 5 km	Reference
5–15 km	− 0.083	0.447	0.853	− 0.963	0.797
16–30 km	− 0.006	0.439	0.989	− 0.871	0.859
31–45 km	0.251	0.445	0.573	− 0.625	1.127
> 45 km	0.100	0.436	0.819	− 0.759	0.959
_cons	4.414	1.070	0.000	2.306	6.521

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