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. 2016 Dec 30;5:2935. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.10508.1

Table 1. Descriptive statistics concerning education background, motivation for attending GHEs, income and use of IT apps in survey participants.

Characteristics N %
Education background (“Edu”)
Secondary or high school (“Hi”)
University or higher (“Uni”)

558
1,510

26.98
73.02
Hesitation due to non-urgency and unimportance (“NotImp”)
Yes
No

1,073
995

51.89
48.11
Readiness due to community subsidy (“ComSubsidy”)
Yes
No

1,061
1,007

51.31
48.69
Usage of subsidy (“UseMon”)
Spending all soon (“allsoon”)
Spending part and saving the rest (“partly”)
Taking the money and using it later (“later”)

1,286
311
471

62.19
15.04
22.77
First choices as having illness symptoms (“StChoice”)
Clinic (“clinic”)
Asking relatives or friends (“askrel”)
Self-study (“selfstudy”)

890
609
569

43.04
29.45
27.51
Affordable GHE costs
Less than VND 1 million (“low”)
VND 1–2 million (“med”)
Above VND 2 million (“hi”)
876
909
283
42.36
43.96
13.68
Ready to use IT apps (“UseIT”)
Yes
Maybe
No

871
721
476

42.12
34.86
23.02
Take GHE if IT apps show health problems (“AfterIT”)
Yes
Maybe
No

815
900
353

39.41
43.52
17.07
Assessments toward GHE’s quality (“QualExam”)
From 1 to < 2 points (“low”)
From 2 to < 4 points (“med”)
From 4 to 5 points (“hi”)

60
1,291
717

2.90
62.43
34.67

*Note: Codes of variables used in R estimations in brackets