Table 4.
Use of health services during the last three months
| Total study population N=502 | With dementia | Without dementia | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 37 | N=465 | ||||
| Primary care | N | % | N | % | p |
| Yes | 3 | 8.1 | 9 | 1.9 | 0.05 |
| Travel time in in minutes: Mean (SD) | 25 (9) | 16 (13) | 0.3 | ||
| Travel cost in USD: mean (SD) | 17 (7) | 10 (7) | 0.5 | ||
| Consultation cost in USD: mean (SD) | 10 (0) | 21 (18) | 0.4 | ||
| Government hospital doctor (N=502) | |||||
| Yes | 2 | 5.4 | 12 | 2.6 | 0.3 |
| Travel time in in minutes: Mean (SD) | 30 (0) | 21 (8) | 0.1 | ||
| Travel costs in USD: mean (SD) | 1 (0) | 6 (3) | 0.1 | ||
| Consultation cost in USD: mean (SD) | 33 (0) | 16 (4) | 0.006 | ||
| Private doctor | |||||
| Yes | 14 | 37.8 | 100 | 21.5 | 0.04 |
| Travel time in minutes: mean (SD) | 33 (36) | 27 (25) | 0.6 | ||
| Travel cost in in USD: mean (SD) | 6 (5) | 10 (14) | 0.6 | ||
| Consultation cost in USD: mean (SD) | 32 (12) | 38 (16) | 0.3 | ||
| Hospital admission for at least 3 nights | |||||
| Yes | 5 | 13.5 | 29 | 6.2 | 0.2 |
| Cost of the admission in USD: mean (SD) | 1200 (0) | 1102 (2168) | 0.9 | ||
| Medicine | |||||
| Yes | 29 | 78.4 | 326 | 70.1 | 0.4 |
| Medicine cost in USD | 156 (152) | 134 (445) | 0.8 | ||
| Health insurance | |||||
| Yes | 15 | 40.5 | 196 | 42.9 | 0.9 |