Effects of health-information-based diabetes shared care program participation on preventable hospitalizations in Taiwan

Table 1 Descriptive and bivariate correlation analyses, individual-level (n = 60,962)

	Preventable hospitalization n/Mean ± Std.		n(%)/Mean ± Std.	Chi-square/t-value(p)
	No (51,338, 84.21%)	Yes (9624, 15.79%)	n(%)/Mean ± Std.	Chi-square/t-value(p)
DSCP participation
None	41,925	7916	49,841(71.76)	2.48(0.480)
Low	5543	1016	6559(10.76)
Medium	3810	679	4489(7.36)
High	60	13	73(0.12)
Sociodemographic characteristics
Gender
Female	28,580	4987	33,567(55.06)	48.60(< 0.001)^a
Male	22,758	4637	27,395(44.94)
Age	63.66 ± 13.88	67.05 ± 15.78	64.20 ± 14.25	−21.47(< 0.001)^b
19–40	2842	562	3404(5.58)	357.95(< 0.001)^a
41–64	24,456	3590	28,046(46.01)
65+	24,040	5472	29,512(48.41)
Income level
Non-low income level	50,178	9349	59,527(97.65)	12.61(< 0.001)^a
Low income level	1160	275	1435(2.35)
Living region
Taipei division	16,590	2772	19,362(31.76)	69.46(< 0.001)^a
Northern division	6584	1321	7905(12.97)
Central division	9158	1862	11,020(18.08)
Southern division	8279	1742	10,021(16.44)
Kaoping division	8918	1589	10,507(17.24)
Eastern division	1809	338	2147(3.52)
Health related factors
Comorbidity	0.43 ± 0.87	0.50 ± 0.93	0.44 ± 0.88	−6.79(< 0.001)^b
Catastrophic illness
No	47,417	9057	56,474(92.64)	36.23(< 0.001)^a
Yes	3921	567	4488(7.36)

Note: ^a Chi-square test; ^b independent t-test. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)

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