Table 1 . Descriptive statistics of the Patients characteristic (n= 986) .
Variables | Number (%) | |
Gender | ||
Male | 419 (42.5) | |
Female | 567 (57.5) | |
Age/year | ||
<10 | 204 (20.7) | |
11-20 | 97 (9.8) | |
21-30 | 222 (22.5) | |
31-40 | 170 (17.2) | |
41-50 | 93 (9.4) | |
51-60 | 83 (8.4) | |
>60 | 117 (11.9) | |
Type of health insurance* | ||
Rural health insurance plan | 800 (81.1) | |
Medical services organization | 118 (12.0) | |
Social security fund | 55 (5.6) | |
Militarily force insurance | 13 (1.3) | |
The Number of visits/year | ||
1 | 469 (47.6) | |
2 | 376 (38.1) | |
3 | 92 (9.3) | |
4≤ | 49 (5.0) | |
The main complaints | ||
Common cold | 362 (36.7) | |
Stomach ache | 95 (9.6) | |
Low back pain | 94 (9.5) | |
Sore throat | 47 (4.8) | |
Other** | 388 (39.3) |
*These health insurance funds are the largest health insurance shames in Iran that approximately cover over the 90% of population.
**Other disease and disorder were included: headache, sneezing, allergy, trauma, rash, asthma, eczema, anemia, diabetes, hypertension and so on.