Table 6. Mean total costs for all groups.
| Group 1 (n=34) (inpatient therapy) | Group 2 (n=35) (outpatient therapy) | Group 3 (n=36) (back school) | p | |||||||
| Mean±SD | Median | Min-Max | Mean±SD | Median | Min-Max | Mean±SD | Median | Min-Max | ||
| Direct medical costs | 960.8±320.9 | 802.4 | 706-1,731 | 488.3±268.3 | 386.1 | 280-1,327 | 247.5±347.1 | 74 | 32-1,532 | <0.001 |
| Physical therapy | 702.3±5.5 | 700 | 700-726 | 283±5.2 | 280 | 280-297 | 80.5±108.3 | 32 | 32-329 | <0.001 |
| Medication | 39.6±19.1 | 40.4 | 5-90 | 34.8±17.2 | 31.7 | 0-87 | 24±20.5 | 19.9 | 0-68 | 0.003 |
| Outpatient clinics | 19.4±32.8 | 0 | 0-110 | 14.1±27.7 | 0 | 0-110 | 12.2±23.1 | 0 | 0-55 | 0.687 |
| Imaging tests | 6.9±22.7 | 0 | 0-79 | 7.9±23 | 0 | 0-79 | 10.9±27.7 | 0 | 0-79 | 0.799 |
| Medical equipment | 192.4±311.4 | 58 | 0-1, 000 | 148.4±265.6 | 60 | 0-1,030 | 119.7±307.3 | 15 | 0-1,500 | 0.110 |
| Complementary medical interventions | 180.2±342 | 0 | 0-1,098 | 211.9±383.4 | 0 | 0-1,307 | 241.3±396.9 | 0 | 0-1,200 | 0.510 |
| Direct non-medical costs transportation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 106.5±46 | 98 | 49-280 | 39±33.3 | 35 | 14-210 | <0.001 |
| Indirect costs | 89.5±270 | 0 | 0-1166 | 213.1±695.7 | 0 | 0-3,866 | 108.1±228.3 | 0 | 0-850 | 0.208 |
| Total costs | 1,050.4±432.5 | 806 | 706-2,451 | 808±794.1 | 525.9 | 336-4,636 | 394.7±495.8 | 124 | 57-1,869 | <0.001 |
| TL: Turkish Liras; SD: Standard deviation; Min: Minimum; Max: Maximum. | ||||||||||