Table 2.
Comparison of characteristics among patients in two districts
| Characteristics | Total (N = 1221) N(%) |
District D(N = 475) N(%) |
District F(N = 746) N(%) |
P Value χ2 test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 0.97 | |||
| Male | 556(45.54) | 216(45.47) | 340(45.58) | |
| Female | 665(54.46) | 259(54.53) | 406(54.42) | |
| Age (years) | < 0.001 | |||
| 0–20 | 4(0.33) | 3(0.63) | 1(0.13) | |
| 21–40 | 200(16.38) | 58(12.21) | 142(19.03) | |
| 41–60 | 578(47.34) | 223(46.95) | 355(47.59) | |
| 61–80 | 414(33.91) | 176(37.05) | 238(31.9) | |
| 81–100 | 25(2.05) | 15(3.16) | 10(1.34) | |
| Registered permanent residence | 0.67 | |||
| The city’s downtown | 1075(88.04) | 423(89.05) | 652(87.4) | |
| The city’s suburbs | 71(5.81) | 26(5.47) | 45(6.03) | |
| Out-of-town | 75(6.14) | 26(5.47) | 49(6.57) | |
| Average monthly medical Expense (yuan) | < 0.001 | |||
| < =300 | 408(33.42) | 195(41.05) | 213(28.55) | |
| 301–500 | 317(25.96) | 95(20) | 222(29.76) | |
| 501–800 | 264(21.62) | 74(15.58) | 190(25.47) | |
| 801–1000 | 122(9.99) | 50(10.53) | 72(9.65) | |
| < 1000 | 110(9.01) | 61(12.84) | 49(6.57) | |
| Health insurance | < 0.001 | |||
| UEBMI | 639(52.33) | 290(61.05) | 349(46.78) | |
| URBMI | 321(26.29) | 133(28.00) | 188(25.2) | |
| NRCMS | 177(14.5) | 16(3.37) | 161(21.58) | |
| NMI | 43(3.52) | 24(5.05) | 19(2.55) | |
| CI | 13(1.06) | 4(0.84) | 9(1.21) | |
| Out of pocket | 15(1.23) | 3(0.63) | 12(1.61) | |
| Chronic disease status [24] | 0.27 | |||
| No chronic disease | 323(26.45) | 134(28.21) | 189(25.34) | |
| Any chronic disease | 898(73.55) | 341(71.79) | 557(74.66) |
Note: willing/unwilling to make primary visit at the primary is a multiple choice of questions, so it is not necessary to make the χ2 test