Barriers in access to healthcare services for individuals with disorders of sex differentiation in Bangladesh: an analysis of regional representative cross-sectional data

Table 4 Overall outcomes of multivariate regression analysis where the number of failures in receiving healthcare services was considered as dependent variable

Independent variables	Unadjusted Coefficient	Adjusted Coefficient	t-values	p-values	Percentage of failures (Number of failures/Number of trials)
Barrier 1	−0.065	− 0.271	−2.842	0.005	57.81 (629/1088)
Barrier 2	−0.063	− 0.205	−2.743	0.006	55.78 (1249/2239)
Barrier 3	−0.080	− 0.288	−3.511	0.000	56.91 (1194/2098)
Barrier 4	−0.057	−0.195	−2.487	0.013	56.21 (1390/2473)
Barrier 5	−0.038	−0.164	−1.666	0.096	55.86 (791/1416)

Note: Numbers within parentheses of the left terminal column indicating the total number of failures/total number of trial. t-value is the t-statistics. Unadjusted coefficient: Not adjusted with any covariates. Barrier 1: non-friendly interactions by non-clinical hospital’s staff; Barrier 2: non-friendly interaction by physicians; Barrier 3: public fright as general people do not want to mingle with DSD person; Barrier 4: undesirable excess public interest as general people congregate around DSD person; Barrier 5: limitation of the treatment opportunities of hospitals to merely male or female patient

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