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Table 1 Agreement statistics for the families and health care costs survey: comparison of responses between the original and follow-up surveys

From: Reliability of a patient survey assessing cost-related changes in health care use among high deductible health plan enrollees

Survey Domain

Percent

Absolute

Absolute

TCC or

95% C.I.

 

95% C.I.

 

Agree

Retraction

Initiation

PCC

CC-L

CC-U

κ

κ-L

κ-U

Beneficiary Knowledge of Plan

Choice of more than one health plan?

80.6%

10.2%

9.2%

0.82

0.74

0.89

0.61

0.52

0.69

Health Savings Account?

92.9%

4.0%

3.2%

0.97

0.95

0.99

0.84

0.78

0.9

Ease/difficulty of understanding plan?

65.8%

18.5%

15.7%

0.72

0.65

0.79

0.48

0.41

0.56

How protected from expenses?

59.2%

20.0%

20.8%

0.70

0.63

0.76

0.50

0.43

0.57

Information Seeking Behavior

Tried to discover whether required to pay?

75.9%

11.4%

12.7%

0.73

0.63

0.82

0.51

0.42

0.6

Tried to discover how much required to pay?

76.2%

10.6%

13.2%

0.72

0.63

0.82

0.52

0.43

0.6

Behavior Change Associated with a Deductible

Less likely to see doctor?

76.9%

8.7%

14.4%

0.75

0.66

0.84

0.53

0.43

0.61

More likely to call/email and not visit?

71.0%

11.2%

17.8%

0.62

0.50

0.73

0.41

0.32

0.51

More likely to adopt good health habits?

71.7%

12.4%

15.9%

0.63

0.52

0.74

0.43

0.34

0.53

Deductible: more likely to change timing?

75.6%

11.4%

13.0%

0.67

0.57

0.78

0.46

0.37

0.55

Any behavior change?*

84.8%

6.7%

8.5%

0.71

0.59

0.83

0.45

0.33

0.57

Experienced Delay in Care Due in Part to Cost

Delayed or forgone ED visit?

87.4%

6.5%

6.0%

0.88

0.82

0.94

0.67

0.58

0.75

Delayed or foregone recommended test?

80.6%

6.6%

12.9%

0.76

0.66

0.85

0.52

0.42

0.61

Delayed/foregone any other time?

82.9%

9.6%

7.5%

0.70

0.58

0.82

0.45

0.34

0.56

Any delayed or foregone care (ED, test, other)?*

81.4%

9.8%

8.8%

0.83

0.76

0.90

0.62

0.55

0.7

Hypothetical Delay in Care Due in Part to Cost

$100 Blood test - Likelihood of delay

52.7%

30.0%

17.2%

0.63

0.56

0.71

0.45

0.38

0.52

$1000 Colonoscopy - Likelihood of delay

63.4%

23.9%

12.7%

0.74

0.67

0.80

0.53

0.46

0.6

$2000 MRI - Likelihood of delay

74.6%

16.1%

9.3%

0.75

0.67

0.82

0.53

0.44

0.61

  1. * Composite measure of all individuals answering yes to at least one behavior change or delayed/forgone care.
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