Table 3.
Comparative expenditure@ incurred in seeking care from different health care providers (N = 168)
| Expenditure |
GPs (n = 60) Mean (SD) [range] |
NGCs (n = 30) Mean (SD) [range] |
NGDs (n = 78) Mean (SD) [range] |
p value# (All Groups) |
P value* | ||
| GPs Vs NGCs | GPs Vs NGDs | NGCs Vs NGDs | |||||
| Consultation + medicine | 39.3 (34.0) [1, 141] |
170.2 (107.3) [30, 450] |
89.9 (134.7) [3, 1050] |
< 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.006 | < 0.001 |
| Conveyance | 21.7 (12.8) [0, 50] |
23.7(18.4) [0, 80] |
18.4 (21.3) [0, 100] |
0.03 | 0.8 | 0.01 | 0.06 |
| Combined | 61.0 (38.2) [1, 161] |
193.9 (121.6) [40, 530] |
108.3 (145.1) [3, 1150] |
< 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.07 | < 0.001 |
@ the figures are in Indian Rupees (INR) where 1 US$ = 42 INR;# Kruskall Wallis test; * Mann-Whitney U test