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Table 2 Potential risk factors for the utilization of outpatient services

From: The impact of predisposing, enabling, and need factors in utilization of health services among rural residents in Guangxi, China

Characteristics

Physician visit

No physician visit

P value

(n = 686)

(n = 3948)

Predisposing factors

 Age (years)

41.51 ± 26.29

31.19 ± 20.50

<0.001

 Gender

  Male

313

2116(14.79 %)

<0.001

  Femalea

373

1832(20.36 %)

 Marital status

  Singlea

208

1765(11.78 %)

<0.001

  Married

432

2056(21.01 %)

  Separated/Divorced/Widowed

46

127(36.22 %)

 Ethnicity

  Han

672

3911(17.18 %)

0.011

  Othersa

14

37(37.84 %)

 Family size (people)

5.56 ± 2.25

6.10 ± 2.25

<0.001

Enabling factors

 Educational level

  No educationa

219

686(31.92 %)

<0.001

  Primary school

245

1107(22.13 %)

  Secondary school

183

1601(11.43 %)

  High school

36

421(8.55 %)

  College or more

3

133(2.26 %)

 Time to nearest health facility (min)

10.21 ± 10.60

12.35 ± 14.71

<0.001

 Expenditure on healthcare (RMB)

4671.77 ± 7433.72

4167.51 ± 9297.44

0.180

 Expenditure of NCMS (RMB)

159.31 ± 67.05

175.29 ± 69.53

< 0.001

Need factors

 Chronic diseases

  Yes

246

290(84.83 %)

<0.001

  Noa

440

3658(12.03 %)

  1. a reference group