Table 4

Predictors of perceived impacts of the NEMP: multivariate linear regression models

Characteristics of respondents		Health workers		Patients		CHCs		Provision of medicines
Characteristics of respondents		Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p	Beta	p
Sex	Female
Sex	Male	0.513	0.616	0.313	0.796	−0.344	0.760	−2.256	0.031
Age (years)	≤25
	26–40	−1.169	0.427	−3.067	0.078	0.149	0.927	0.153	0.919
	41–55	−2.871	0.169	−3.485	0.158	−2.579	0.262	−0.337	0.874
	≥56	1.133	0.685	0.593	0.858	1.661	0.589	3.939	0.167
Education	High school
	Vocational certificate	1.523	0.530	1.351	0.637	−2.260	0.397	−0.298	0.904
	Associate’s degree	0.904	0.707	0.521	0.855	−1.225	0.643	0.537	0.827
	Bachelor’s degree or higher	1.027	0.685	−0.221	0.941	−2.903	0.297	−0.583	0.821
Work experience (years)	≤10
	11–20	−0.924	0.434	−1.555	0.265	−1.980	0.128	−1.617	0.179
	21–30	0.429	0.434	−1.787	0.441	−1.286	0.551	−2.104	0.293
	≥31	−0.334	0.883	−1.912	0.476	0.214	0.932	−0.953	0.680
Division	Internal medicine
	Surgical department	−5.139	0.023	−1.506	0.573	−3.651	0.142	−4.249	0.065
	Gynaecology and obstetrics	−1.686	0.407	2.949	0.220	0.410	0.855	0.653	0.753
	Paediatrics	−5.125	0.119	−1.563	0.678	−1.614	0.655	−0.349	0.917
	General practice	−0.144	0.925	0.242	0.894	1.102	0.514	−1.761	0.261
	Traditional Chinese medicine	1.549	0.442	6.384	0.007	2.349	0.289	2.397	0.243
	Preventive care	1.235	0.548	1.899	0.434	3.250	0.153	0.367	0.861
	Others	−0.368	0.809	0.982	0.586	0.764	0.649	−0.304	0.845
Profession	Physician
	Nurse	2.612	0.030	1.007	0.477	2.950	0.025	3.107	0.011
	Public health worker	0.854	0.736	1.563	0.602	−1.112	0.691	−1.412	0.585
	Pharmacist	7.558	0.000	5.457	0.004	6.604	0.000	6.069	0.000
	Others	1.420	0.311	0.432	0.794	−0.964	0.532	1.152	0.420
Professional title	Junior
	Middle	0.182	0.864	2.123	0.091	1.116	0.341	1.049	0.333
	Senior	2.474	0.195	6.150	0.006	4.054	0.054	2.717	0.163
	Others	−1.815	0.217	0.706	0.684	−1.278	0.429	−1.059	0.479
Annual income (¥1000)	<20
	20–	−2.420	0.038	−3.052	0.027	−1.031	0.423	−0.862	0.469
	50–	−3.330	0.050	−7.722	0.000	−4.872	0.009	−4.389	0.011
	≥80	−9.990	0.001	−14.954	0.000	−12.076	0.000	−9.226	0.002
NEMP training (times)	0
	1	1.648	0.126	1.892	0.137	2.119	0.074	1.617	0.141
	2	3.280	0.005	2.111	0.125	2.151	0.093	1.930	0.104
	≥3	4.018	0.000	2.279	0.043	4.168	0.001	3.892	0.001
Region	Central
	Western	−0.691	0.487	−2.132	0.069	−3.671	0.001	−2.055	0.043
	Eastern	−5.794	0.000	−3.779	0.010	−5.438	0.000	−1.686	0.185
R²		0.191		0.164		0.187		0.134
p (model fit)			<0.001		<0.001		<0.001		<0.001

CHC, community health centres; NEMP, national essential medicines policy.