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.