Table 3.

Health service utilization.

Characteristics	Women		Men		Total		p-Value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Health service use in the past 12 months
Inpatient	53	14.5	27	17.2	80	15.3	0.43
Outpatient	191	52.2	68	43.3	259	49.5	0.06
Regular health check-up	254	69.4	120	76.4	374	71.5	0.10
First medical facility where participants sought services for health problems							0.03
The central hospital	7	1.9	2	1.3	9	1.7
The provincial hospital	2	0.6	3	1.9	5	1.0
District health department	67	18.3	49	31.2	116	22.2
Commune health station	208	56.8	79	50.3	287	54.9
Private health facility	20	5.5	7	4.5	27	5.2
Self-medication	38	10.4	10	6.4	48	9.2
Others	24	6.6	7	4.5	31	5.9
Satisfaction of health services							0.02
Very unsatisfied	1	0.3	2	1.3	3	0.6
Unsatisfied	0	0.0	1	0.7	1	0.2
Neutral	11	3.2	13	8.7	24	4.8
Satisfied	78	22.4	27	18.0	105	21.1
Very satisfied	258	74.1	107	71.3	365	73.3
Level of satisfaction with medical staff							0.02
Very unsatisfied	1	0.3	2	1.3	3	0.6
Unsatisfied	2	0.6	2	1.3	4	0.8
Neutral	6	1.7	10	6.6	16	3.2
Satisfied	78	22.4	26	17.2	104	20.8
Very satisfied	261	75.0	111	73.5	372	74.6
Difficulty visiting health facilities							0.42
Extremely difficult	1	0.3	2	1.3	3	0.6
Highly difficult	3	0.9	3	2.0	6	1.2
Moderately difficult	14	4.0	4	2.7	18	3.6
Slightly difficult	49	14.1	18	12.1	67	13.5
Not difficult	280	80.7	122	81.9	402	81.1
Difficulty receiving results at health facilities
Extremely difficult	137	40.2	58	38.9	196	39.8	0.65
Highly difficult	3	0.9	3	2.0	6	1.2
Moderately difficult	12	3.5	5	3.4	17	3.5
Slightly difficult	36	10.6	11	7.4	47	9.6
Not difficult	153	44.9	72	48.3	225	45.9
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-Value
Number of services used in last 12 months
Inpatient services	0.3	1.0	0.4	1.3	0.3	1.1	0.43
Outpatient services	1.6	2.8	1.4	2.6	1.6	2.7	0.04
Health check-up services	3.5	4.4	4.1	4.6	3.6	4.4	0.13