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. 2023 May 20;54(3):614–619. [Article in Chinese] doi: 10.12182/20230560505

表 1. Univariate analysis of influencing factors of healthcare seeking behaviors in older adults (n=5690).

老年人就医情况影响因素的单因素分析(n=5690)

Variable Seeing a doctor in the last
two weeks/case (%)
χ 2 P One-year hospitalization/case (%) χ 2 P
Yes No Yes No
Financial support from children 24.845 <0.001 3.965 0.046
 No 907 (44.1) 1849 (50.9) 631 (46.1) 2125 (49.2)
 Yes 1152 (55.9) 1782 (49.1) 738 (53.9) 2196 (50.8)
Daily care support from children 27.465 <0.001 24.550 <0.001
 No 1190 (57.8) 2353 (64.8) 775 (56.6) 2768 (64.1)
 Yes 869 (42.2) 1278 (35.2) 594 (43.4) 1553 (35.9)
Seeing one's children daily 0.239 0.625 8.346 0.004
 No 1055 (51.2) 1836 (50. 6) 649 (47.4) 2242 (51.9)
 Yes 1004 (48.8) 1795 (49.4) 720 (52.6) 2079 (48.1)
Gender 87.881 <0.001 0.592 0.442
 Female 873 (42.4) 2009 (55.3) 681 (49.7) 2201 (50.9)
 Male 1186 (57.6) 1622 (44.7) 688 (50.3) 2120 (49.1)
Age/yr. 0.204 0.675 8.459 0.004
 60-74 1810 (87.9) 3177 (87.5) 1169 (85.4) 3818 (88.4)
 ≥75 249 (12.1) 454 (12.5) 200 (16.8) 503 (11.6)
Marital status 9.461 0.002 3.326 0.068
 Single/divorced/widowed 377 (18.3) 551 (15.2) 245 (17.9) 683 (15.8)
 Married 1682 (81.7) 3080 (84.8) 1124 (82.1) 3638 (84.2)
Education 60.446 <0.001 2.059 0.560
 Illiteracy 946 (45.9) 1314 (36.2) 558 (40.8) 1702 (39.4)
 Primary school 559 (27.1) 1050 (28.9) 383 (28.0) 1226 (28.4)
 Junior high schooll 378 (18.4) 828 (22.8) 274 (20.0) 932 (21.6)
 High school and above 176 (8.5) 439 (12.1) 154 (11.2) 461 (10.7)
Number of surviving children 13.653 <0.001 2.990 0.084
 1 328 (15.9) 722 (19.9) 231 (16.9) 819 (19.0)
 ≥2 1731 (84.1) 2909 (80.1) 1138 (83.1) 3502 (81.0)
Urban or rural residents 23.001 <0.001 0.019 0.901
 Rural 1185 (57.6) 1850 (51.0) 728 (53.2) 2307 (53.4)
 Urban 874 (42.4) 1781 (49.0) 641 (46.8) 2014 (46.6)
Current working status 1.287 0.257 20.533 <0.001
 Unemployment 1003 (48.7) 1712 (47.1) 726 (53.0) 1989 (46.0)
 Employment 1056 (51.3) 1919 (52.9) 634 (47.0) 2332 (54.0)
Personal annual income 35.217 <0.001 20.533 <0.001
 Q1 546 (26.5) 894 (24.6) 315 (23.0) 1125 (26.0)
 Q2 575 (27.9) 869 (24.0) 392 (28.6) 1052 (24.3)
 Q3 518 (25.2) 880 (24.2) 296 (21.6) 1102 (25.5)
 Q4 420 (20.4) 988 (27.2) 366 (26.8) 1042 (24.1)
Medical insurance 29.557 <0.001 19.623 <0.001
 No 139 (6.8) 226 (6.2) 64 (4.7) 301 (7.3)
 Other medical insurance 43 (2.1) 138 (3.8) 54 (3.9) 127 (2.9)
 Medical insurance for urban workers 233 (11.3) 505 (13.9) 209 (15.3) 529 (12.2)
 Medical insurance for urban residents 153 (7.4) 331 (9.1) 112 (8.2) 372 (8.6)
 New rural cooperative medical insurance 1491 (72.4) 2431 (67.0) 930 (67.9) 2992 (69.2)
Receiving retirement pension 19.413 <0.001 9.663 0.002
 No 1723 (83.7) 2864 (78.9) 1064 (77.7) 3523 (81.5)
 Yes 336 (16.3) 767 (21.1) 305 (22.3) 798 (18.5)
Receiving old-age pension 4.821 0.028 0.304 0.581
 No 719 (34.9) 1374 (37.8) 495 (36.2) 1598 (37.0)
 Yes 1340 (65.1) 2257 (62.2) 874 (24.3) 2723 (63.0)
Chronic diseases 163.730 <0.001 127.345 <0.001
 No 1222 (59.3) 2744 (75.6) 787 (57.5) 3179 (73.6)
 Yes 837 (40.7) 887 (24.4) 582 (42.5) 1142 (26.4)
Self-reported health status 313.456 <0.001 96.906 <0.001
 Poor 827 (40.2) 703 (19.4) 501 (36.6) 1029 (23.8)
 General 469 (22.7) 874 (24.1) 322 (23.5) 1021 (23.6)
 Good 763 (37.1) 2054 (56.5) 546 (39.9) 2271 (52.6)
Activities of daily living 63.606 <0.001 37.994 <0.001
 Being unable to care for oneself independently 509 (24.7) 583 (16.1) 341 (24.9) 751 (17.4)
 Being able to care for oneself independently 1550 (75.3) 3048 (83.9) 102 (75.1) 3570 (82.6)