Table 2.
General characteristics of households before treatment
| Variables | Treatment (N = 1145) |
Control (N = 2126) |
Χ2 / t | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | 937 (81.83) | 1649 (77.56) | 8.20** |
| Female | 208 (18.17) | 477 (22.44) | ||
| Elderly | No | 458 (40.00) | 1461 (68.72) | 253.15*** |
| Yes | 687 (60.00) | 665 (31.28) | ||
| Education level | Middle school or less | 591 (51.62) | 809 (38.05) | 55.92*** |
| High school or more | 554 (48.38) | 1317 (61.95) | ||
| Presence of a spouse | No | 264 (23.06) | 558 (26.25) | 4.02* |
| Yes | 881 (76.94) | 1568 (73.75) | ||
| Economically active | No | 539 (47.07) | 498 (23.42) | 192.14*** |
| Yes | 606 (52.93) | 1628 (76.58) | ||
| Living alone | No | 956 (83.49) | 1763 (82.93) | 0.17 |
| Yes | 189 (16.51) | 363 (17.07) | ||
| Equivalent income | 1st quintile | 323 (28.21) | 394 (18.53) | 80.40*** |
| 2nd quintile | 297 (25.94) | 457 (21.50) | ||
| 3rd quintile | 229 (20.00) | 428 (20.13) | ||
| 4th quintile | 152 (13.28) | 458 (21.54) | ||
| 5th quintile | 144 (12.58) | 389 (18.30) | ||
| Private health insurance | No | 390 (34.06) | 415 (19.52) | 84.81*** |
| Yes | 755 (65.94) | 1711 (80.48) | ||
| National health insurance | No | 1039 (90.74) | 2034 (95.67) | 31.81*** |
| Yes | 106 (9.26) | 92 (4.33) | ||
| Presence of disabled persons | No | 929 (81.14) | 1965 (92.43) | 93.05*** |
| Yes | 216 (18.86) | 161 (7.57) | ||
| Incidence of CHE | No | 735 (64.19) | 1884 (88.62) | 278.19*** |
| Yes | 410 (35.81) | 242 (11.38) | ||
| Intensity of CHE | 0.122 ± 0.005 | 0.049 ± 0.002 | −13.08*** | |
Values are presented as frequency (%) or mean ± standard deviation