Table 2.
Out of Pocket (OOP) Expenditure During the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer
| Variable | Category | Direct medical OOP expenditure |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean in INR (SE) | Mean in USD (SE) | |||
| Gender | Male | 37,379 (1283) | 556 (19) | 0.245 |
| Female | 42,114 (3681) | 627 (55) | ||
| Age | Less than 30 years | 48,059 (4251) | 715 (63) | 0.001 |
| 30-40 years | 49,924 (5555) | 743 (83) | ||
| 40-50 years | 39,902 (3295) | 594 (49) | ||
| 50-60 years | 36,207 (1783) | 539 (27) | ||
| Equal to and more than 60 years | 33,521 (1867) | 499 (28) | ||
| Income quartile | Poorest | 32,780 (1833) | 488 (27) | 0.007 |
| Poor | 36,769 (2419) | 547 (36) | ||
| Rich | 37,411 (2386) | 557 (36) | ||
| Richest | 44,479 (2863) | 662 (43) | ||
| Locality | Rural | 36,610 (1368) | 545 (20) | 0.1 |
| Urban | 41,061 (2521) | 611 (38) | ||
| Presence of insurance/subsidy entitlement | Yes | 35,287 (1879) | 525 (28) | 0.115 |
| No | 39,272 (1568) | 584 (23) | ||
| Treatment modality | Radiotherapy alone | 32,379 (1207) | 482 (18) | <0.001 |
| Radiotherapy along with chemotherapy | 37,192 (6065) | 554 (90) | ||
| Surgery followed by radiotherapy | 60,691 (1225) | 903 (31) | ||
| Surgery followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy | 67,480 (4993) | 1004 (121) | ||
| Type of radiotherapy | Two dimensional radiotherapy | 31,487 (1187) | 469 (18) | 0.013 |
| Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy | 42,405 (4095) | 631 (74) | ||
| Stage | I | 32,095 (4761) | 478 (71) | 0.35 |
| II | 34,498 (2516) | 513 (37) | ||
| III | 33,149 (1946) | 493 (29) | ||
| IV | 37,878 (1840) | 564 (27) | ||
| Total | 37,845 (1213) | 563 (18) | ||