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Table 1 Characteristics of patient samples before and after intervention (%)

From: Impact of an innovative financing and payment model on tuberculosis patients’ financial burden: is tuberculosis care more affordable for the poor?

 

Before intervention (n = 738)

After intervention (n = 735)

P-value1

Gender

 Male

555 (75.2%)

532 (72.4%)

0.218

Age

  < 30

45 (6.1%)

58 (7.9%)

0.065

 30–59

352 (47.7%)

309 (42.0%)

  ≥ 60

341 (46.2%)

468 (50.1%)

Marital status

 Married

595 (80.6%)

575 (78.3%)

0.278

Patient category

 new patient

594 (81.4%)

602 (81.9%)

0.791

Education level

 None

140 (19.0%)

166 (22.7%)

0.119

 Primary school

242 (32.8%)

247 (33.7%)

 Secondary school

262 (33.5%)

221 (31.1%)

  ≥ high school

94 (12.7%)

99 (12.5%)

Insurance type

 UEBMI

45 (6.1%)

69 (9.4%)

 

 resident insurance

21 (2.8%)

45 (5.9%)

 

 NCMS

648 (87.8%)

598 (81.6%)

0.000

 other insurance

16 (2.2%)

5 (0.7%)

 

 no insurance

8 (1.1%)

18 (2.5%)

 

Employment

 Employed

403 (54.6%)

369 (50.2%)

0.0912

 Unemployed

40 (5.4%)

55 (7.5%)

 

 Retired

252 (34.2%)

86 (11.7%)

 

 lost ability

35 (4.7%)

91 (12.4%)

 

 other

8 (1.1%)

134 (18.2%)

 

Income groupa

  <  4369 RMB

243 (33.2%)

240 (33.5%)

0.970

 4369–12 647 RMB

314 (42.9%)

303 (42.3%)

  >  12 647 RMB

175 (23.9%)

174 (23.2%)

  1. UEBMI Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance, NCMS New Cooperative Medical Schemes
  2. 1 P-value for chi-square test. 2 P-value for comparison employed vs unemployed
  3. aThe numbers in the three categories do not add up to total due to missing data