Poor high-blood Pressure control according to multivariate multilevel logistic regression models in South-West Zone by sex*
| Global model | Model for men | Model for women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | (95% CI) | OR | (95% CI) | OR | (95% CI) | |
| Sex of patient† (woman) | 0.86‡ | (0.80 to 0.92) | ||||
| Patient age | 0.99 | (0.99 to 1.00) | 0.99‡ | (0.98 to 0.99) | 1.005‡ | (1.001 to 1.01) |
| Economic immigrant condition | 1.55‡ | (1.29 to 1.85) | 1.89‡ | (1.43 to 2.51) | 1.39‡ | (1.09 to 1.76) |
| Professional experience (years)§ | ||||||
| 11–20 | 1.51 | (0.90 to 2.53) | 1.66‡ | (1.04 to 2.62) | 1.47 | (0.81 to 2.65) |
| Over 20 | 1.50 | (0.77 to 2.93) | 1.80 | (0.97 to 3.32) | 1.34 | (0.62 to 2.90) |
| Professional category¶ (nurse manager) | 0.97 | (0.70 to 1.34) | 0.88 | (0.64 to 1.20) | 0.98 | (0.67 to 1.44) |
| Contract type** (temporary post) | 1.33 | (0.78 to 2.27) | 1.36 | (0.85 to 2.18) | 1.30 | (0.70 to 2.42) |
| Educational level†† | ||||||
| Higher degree | 0.83 | (0.34 to 2.00) | 0.85 | (0.36 to 1.99) | 0.73 | (0.26 to 2.05) |
| Studies in other disciplines | 1.03 | (0.68 to 1.55) | 1.03 | (0.74 to 1.43) | 1.03 | (0.66 to 1.60) |
| Nurse age | 1.01 | (0.98 to 1.04) | 0.99 | (0.97 to 1.03) | 1.01 | (0.97 to 1.04) |
| Users/ratio of the general population | 0.99 | (0.99 to 1.0004) | 0.99 | (0.99 to 1.0003) | 1.00008 | (0.99 to 1.0006) |
| Users/ratio of patients over 65 years of age | 1.0004 | (0.99 to 1.002) | 1.00010 | (0.99 to 1.001) | 1.001 | (0.99 to 1.003) |
| Summary score of global PES-NWI | 0.99 | (0.99 to 1.001) | 0.990 | (0.99 to 1.004) | 0.99‡ | (0.98 to 0.99) |
| Average nursing consultations per day | 1.02 | (0.98 to 1.05) | 1.01 | (0.98 to 1.05) | 1.01 | (0.97 to 1.05) |
| Patients’ average nursing consultations per year | 0.99‡ | (0.98 to 0.99) | 0.99‡ | (0.97 to 0.99) | 0.98‡ | (0.97 to 0.99) |
| Users/physician ratio | 0.99 | (0.99 to 1.001) | 0.99 | (0.990 to 1.0004) | 0.99 | (0.99 to 1.0008) |
| Deprivation index by quartiles‡‡ | ||||||
| Quartile 3 | 0.55‡ | (0.35 to 0.85) | 0.49 | (0.33 to 0.73) | 0.56‡ | (0.32 to 0.97) |
| Quartile 4 | 0.68 | (0.43 to 1.07) | 0.60‡ | (0.40 to 0.91) | 0.73 | (0.42 to 1.27) |
| Proportion of patients with HBP not measured by centres | 18.72 | (0.67 to 525.74) | 7.20 | (0.38 to 136.35) | 30.18 | (0.53 to 1714.36) |
| Random effect variables | ||||||
| Centre (var/MOR) | 0.009/1.09§§ | ≈0/1 | 0.023/1.15§§ | |||
| Physician-nurse pair (var/MOR) | 0.21/1.55§§ | 0.15/1.45§§ | 0.26/1.62§§ | |||
*LR test versus Logistic regression.
†Reference category: men.
‡Significant p≤0.05.
§Reference category: 3–10 years of profession.
¶Reference category: clinical nurse.
**Reference category: permanent post.
††Reference category: bachelor’s degree.
‡‡Reference category: quartile 2. in SWZ there were not individuals in Quartile 1 (better socioeconomic situation).
§§p=0.000 for random effect variables (Health Centre and the physician–nurse pair, in all models). MOR, median OR; PES-NWI, Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index; var, variance.