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Table 5 Association between facility-based factors and health workers’ Compliance with IPTp-SP guidelines, Northern Region

From: Factors influencing health workers’ compliance with the WHO intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy recommendations in the Northern Region, Ghana

Variable

cOR (95% CI)

P-value

aOR (95% CI)

P-value

Facility type

 Hospital

1.00

   

 Health Centre

0.08 (0.03 0.22)

0.001

0.03 (0.01 0.07)

0.001++

 CHPS compound

0.11 (0.06 0.24)

0.001

0.03 (0.02 0.05)

0.001++

Staff workload

 0–30

1.00

   

  > 30

0.95 (0.60 1.52)

0.829

Training

 No

1.00

   

 Yes

13.11 (7.60 22.62)

0.001

10.11 (4.53 22.56)

0.001++

Monitoring

 No

1.00

   

 Yes

16.63 (9.21 30.02)

0.001

4.01 (2.09 7.68)

0.001++

Job satisfaction

 Not satisfied

1.00

   

 Satisfied

12.24 (7.04 21.26)

0.001

10.87 (7.04 16.79)

0.001++

IPT training manual

 Not provided

1.00

   

 Provided

4.50 (2.55 7.95)

0.001

3.61 (2.44 5.35)

0.001++

Shortage of SP

 No

1.00

   

 Yes

0.42 (0.25 0.71)

0.001

1.08 (0.71 1.64)

0.730

  1.  +  + statistically significant