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Table 6 Major influencing factors on medical debt of MFA cardholders in project Areas

From: The impact of different benefit packages of Medical Financial Assistance Scheme on health service utilization of poor population in Rural China

Factors

Borrowing large amount money(≥500RMB) ※

 

OR (CI, 95%)

P

Type (H8SP/H8)

0.8 (0.6, 1.3)

0.281

Gender (male/female)

19.8 (11.5, 34.0)

0.000

Age (15-39.9/60+)

1.4 (0.9, 2.1)

0.387

Age (40-59.9/60+)

2.5 (1.8, 3.7)

0.000

Marital status (unmarried/married)

1.6 (0.9, 2.9)

0.317

Marital status (Widowed+ divorced/married)

0.3 (0.1, 0.5)

0.000

Education (Illiterate/junior high school+)

0.8 (0.5, 1.5)

0.819

Education (Primary school/junior high school+)

1.1 (0.7, 1.8)

0.639

Economic status (Extremely poor/relatively poor)

1.4 (1.0, 2.1)

0.082

Disability status (Presence/absence)

1.0 (0.6, 1.4)

0.874

Distance from home to the nearest designated medical centre (≤3 km/>3 km)

0.8 (0.6, 1.1)

0.321

Awareness of MFA detailed package (Yes/no)

1.5 (1.0, 2.1)

0.045

Presence of Illness in last 2 weeks (Presence/absence)

1.0 (0.4, 2.3)

0.893

Presence of Chronic disease (Presence/absence)

1.5 (1.1, 2.2)

0.036

Physician visit (yes/no)

1.3 (0.6, 3.2)

0.647

High-frequency MFA use (≥2) (yes/no)

1.1 (0.7, 1.7)

0.589

Hospitalization (yes/no)

4.2 (2.4, 6.8)

0.000

  1. ※ Binominal regression with log-link model was fitted using SAS PROC GENMOD;
  2. Odds ratio was adjusted for the other remaining independent variables listed in the table.