Table 5.
Association between catastrophic total cost and the patients psycho-social characteristics (n=151)
| Factor | Catastrophic total cost, n (%) |
χ2 | p-value | cOR (95% CI) | aOR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n=50) | No (n=101) | |||||
| Coping strategies | ||||||
| Yes | 36.0 (36.4) | 63.0 (63.6) | 1.4 | 0.241 | 1.6 (0.7–3.2) | - |
| No (r)* | 14.0 (26.9) | 38.0 (73.1) | ||||
| Loss of job | ||||||
| Yes | 31.0 (70.5) | 13.0 (29.5) | 39.1 | <0.001 | 11 (4.9–24.9) | 6.5 (2.2–19.8) |
| No (r)* | 19.0 (17.8) | 88.0 (82.2) | ||||
| Socially excluded (n=139) | ||||||
| Yes | 23.0 (32.4) | 48.0 (67.6) | 0 | 0.996 | 0.9 (0.5–2.0) | - |
| No (r)* | 22.0 (32.4) | 46.0 (67.6) | ||||
| Psychologically affected (n=139) | ||||||
| Yes | 42.0 (32.6) | 87.0 (67.4) | 0 | 0.868 | 0.9 (0.2–3.6) | - |
| No (r)* | 3.0 (30.0) | 7.0 (70.0) | ||||
| Stop education (n=139) | ||||||
| Yes | 1.0 (8.3) | 11.0 (91.7) | - | 0.103† | 0.2 (0.0–1.4) | 0.9 (0.1–19.7) |
| No (r)* | 44.0 (34.6) | 83.0 (65.4) | ||||
| Borrowing money (n=139) | ||||||
| Yes | 33.0 (35.1) | 61.0 (64.9) | 0.9 | 0.320 | 0.7 (0.3–1.5) | - |
| No (r)* | 12.0 (26.7) | 33.0 (73.3) | ||||
| Selling property (n=139) | ||||||
| Yes | 24.0 (25.8) | 69.0 (74.2) | 5.5 | 0.019‡ | 2.4 (1.2–5.1) | 4.7 (1.5–14.9) |
| No (r)* | 21.0 (45.7) | 25.0 (54.3) | ||||
*
Reference category.
†
p-value of Fisher exact test.
‡
Statistically significant at p<0.05.