Health Service Utilization and Its Determinants among Senior Citizens in the Semiurban Area of Western Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 5

Factor association with health service utilization.

	Variables	Utilized health services		value	COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	value
		Yes (238)	No (55)
Predisposing factors	Gender
	Male	105 (75.5)	34 (24.5)	0.018	2.05 (1.124–3.741)	2.082 (1.111–3.902)	0.022
	Female	133 (86.4)	21 (13.6)		Ref
	Ethnicity
	Upper caste	163 (87.2)	24 (12.8)	0.001	2.807 (1.54–5.11)	3.129 (1.67–5.84)	<0.001
	Nonupper caste	75 (70.8)	31.29.2		Ref
	Residency
	Urban	74 (92.5)	6 (7.5)	0.002	3.68 (1.51–8.98)	4.312 (1.718–10.82)	0.002
	Semiurban	164 (77)	49 (23)		Ref
Enabling factors	Personal income
	≤10000	189 (78.4)	52 (21.6)	0.015	Ref	Ref	0.103
	>10000	49 (94.2)	3 (5.8)		0.223 (0.067–0.743)	2.279 (0.812–9.62)
	Family income per month
	≤50000	187 (77.9)	53 (22.1)	0.002	Ref	Ref	0.035
	>50000	51 (96.2)	2 (2.8)		0.138 (0.033–0.587)	4.852 (1.118–21.08)
	Family support
	Yes	221 (84.4)	41 (15.6)	<0.001	4.44 (2.03–9.70)	3.21 (1.45–7.09)	0.004
	No	17 (54.8)	14 (45.2)		Ref
Need factors	Self-perceived health
	Medium/poor	189 (84.8)	34 (15.2)	0.006	2.382 (1.271–4.465)	0.861 (0.393–1.883)	0.707
	Good	49 (70)	21 (30)		Ref
	Presence of chronic disease
	Yes	220 (84.3)	41 (15.7)	<0.001	4.173 (1.92–9.049)	2.90 (1.178–7.158)	0.021
	No	18 (56.2)	14 (43.8)		Ref
	Under medication
	Yes	160 (87)	24 (13)	0.001	2.65 (1.46–4.82)	2.04 (1.053–3.961)	0.033
	No	78 (71.6)	31 (28.4)		Ref

value significant at 0.05.