Table 3.

Reasons Care was not Obtained among Persons Reporting Unmet Need for Care (n = 139)*

Reasons endorsed	1995	2005	p†
Did not know where to go, %	12	10	0.83
Could not afford doctor due to lack of money or insurance, %	42	67	0.01
Problem was not serious enough, %	13	7	0.23
Lacked transportation, %	19	41	0.01
Too busy to go, %	6	8	0.74
Could not get off work, %	4	3	1.0
Too sick to go, %	6	10	0.53
Too much trouble to wait at hospital, %	10	10	0.89
Don’t have service card for the hospital, %	10	16	0.28
Don’t like doctors or hospitals, %	19	7	0.03

*Participants who reported an unmet need for health care (n = 52 in 1995; n = 87 in 2005) were asked to endorse items from a standard list of reasons that they “did not go to a doctor.” They were permitted to endorse more than one reason

†The p-value reflects a chi-squared test comparing the percentage endorsing each reason in 1995 versus 2005