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Table 4 Situational analysis of rural and urban health facilities (n = 64)

From: Frontline staff motivation levels and health care quality in rural and urban primary health facilities: a baseline study in the Greater Accra and Western regions of Ghana

 

Rural(n = 36)

Urban(n = 28)

 

Factors

Mean(SDb)

Mean(SD)

p-value

Input indicators

 Staff strength per clinic

25(19)

24(25)

0.8670

 Number of beds per clinic

11(10)

9(11)

0.4132

Process indicators

 Percentage of staff trained in health and safety in the last 12 months

39 % (48 %)

41 % (47 %)

0.8792

 Number of orientation sessions by facility in the last 12 months

59(36)

49(43)

0.3067

Outputs indicators

 Number of deliveries in a month

17(18)

7(13)

0.0112*

 Number of antenatal care (ANC) visits in a month

121(158)

77(125)

0.2269

 Number of family planning (FP) services in a month

58(90)

59(152)

0.9619

 Number of male condoms distributed in a month

96(193)

45(142)

0.2515

 Number of preventive health services and screenings in a montha

52(19)

22(8)

0.1768

 Number of chronic healthcare services in a month

125(171)

204(299)

0.1911

 Number of HIV/AIDS preventive services in a month

181(214)

59(90)

0.0067*

  1. Source: WOTRO- COHEiSION Project Clinic Staff Survey Data (March-June, 2012)
  2. *Statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance using the independent t-test of two-tailed hypothesis
  3. aThese services include: Tuberculosis (TB), diabetes and cholesterol
  4. bSD: Standard deviation