Providing financial incentives to rural-to-urban tuberculosis migrants in Shanghai: an intervention study

Table 2 Cost of treatment for new TB patients in the intervention and control districts

Variables	Intervention	Control
No of subjects	52	43
Male (%)	31 (60)	25 (58)^a
Average age	30	35^b
Married (%)	25 (48)	13 (30)^c
Education: illiterate and semi-literate (%)	3 (5.8)	5 (12)^d
Employment: informal sector (labor intensive and service industry) (%)	35 (67)	35 (81)^e
Have medical insurance in Shanghai (%)	9 (17)	10 (23)^f
Average per capita annual family income (RMB)	27,194	22,124^g
Average annual family income (RMB)	53,004	53,605^h
Direct cost (RMB)	8416	9743ⁱ
Direct medical cost (RMB)	5929	6902^j
Direct non-medical (RMB)	2487	2841^k
Transportation cost (RMB)	290	262^l
Food and accommodation (RMB)	246	485^m
Nutrition cost (RMB)	1950	2094ⁿ
Direct cost/annual family income (%)	16	18

^aχ² = 0.021, P = 0.884; ^bZ = −1.277, P = 0.202;^cχ² = 3.123, P = 0.077;^dFisher’s exact test, P = 0.461;^eχ² = 2.409, P = 0.121;^fχ² = 0.520, P = 0.471;^gZ = −0.969, P = 0.333;^hZ = −0.565, P = 0.572;ⁱ Z = −1.436, P = 0.151;^jZ = −1.028, P = 0.304; ^kZ = −1.537, P = 0.124; ^lNZ = −0.345, P = 0.730; ^mZ = −0.260, P = 0.795; ⁿZ = −0.931, P = 0.352.

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