Community perceptions and practices of treatment seeking for childhood pneumonia: a mixed methods study in a rural district, Ghana

Table 3 Probit regression results for intention to use services of CHWs and background characteristics

Intention to use the services of CHW	Coefficient	Standard Error	z	P > z
Age of respondent	0.016	0.015	1.06	0.29
Female (Reference: Male)	0.582	0.302	1.75	0.081
Married (reference: not married)	0.917	0.25	3.67	0.000^a
Birth Parity (Number of Children)	1.416	0.233	6.09	0.000^a
Education (Reference: No education)
Primary	0.055	0.385	0.14	0.887
JHS	−0.448	0.348	−1.29	0.199
Secondary plus	−0.593	0.532	−1.11	0.265
Reason for not using (Reference: financial)
Unfriendly staff	0.124	0.374	0.33	0.74
Distance/proximity	0.808	0.326	2.48	0.013^b
Religion (Reference: None)
Christian	−0.683	0.68	−1	0.315
Moslem	−0.539	1.434	−0.38	0.707
Occupation (Reference: Unemployed)
Farmers	−0.0689	0.386	−0.18	0.859
Artisans	0.0412	0.390	0.11	0.916
Traders	0.4860	0.352	1.38	0.167
Formal sector of the economy	−0.2545	0.693	−0.37	0.713
Employed (other jobs)	−0.2769	0.591	−0.47	0.639
_cons	−0.6888	0.886	−0.78	0.437

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