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. 2014 Oct 20;3(7):377–381. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.103

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.