Preferences heterogeneity of health care utilization of community residents in China: a stated preference discrete choice experiment

Table 5 Results of parameter estimation of LCA

Preference	Group 1			Group 2			Group 3			Group 4
Preference	Coefficient	SE.	Z-value	Coefficient	SE.	Z-value	Coefficient	SE	Z value	Coefficient	SE	Z-value
Utility function
TCM^a	−0.4977^***	0.0735	−6.7624	−0.4064	1.1446	− 0.3551	5.3396	5.2419	1.0181	−0.5935^***	0.0574	−10.3316
WM^b	– 0.0148	0.059	−0.2506	1.6497	1.1291	1.4612	3.9783	2.7063	1.4700	−0.0326	0.0531	−0.6136
Cost	0.0034^***	0.0009	3.4823	−0.0809^***	0.0163	−4.9428	0.0359	0.0350	1.0277	−0.0008	0.0005	−1.6432
Travel time^c	−0.611^***	0.0675	−9.0253	0.1395	0.2421	0.5765	−8.5006^*	4.0320	−2.1083	0.4658^***	0.0495	9.4014
Provider^d	−0.3681^***	0.0956	−3.8476	0.1035	0.4129	0.2507	−1.8776	1.3905	−1.3503	1.4272^***	0.0755	18.8857
Influence factors
Sex^e				−0.0531	0.0824	− 0.6432	−0.3077	0.2814	−1.0934	−0.0463^*	0.1843	−2.5165
Age				−0.0078^*	0.0039	−2.0104	−0.0625^***	0.0131	−4.7918	0.0051^***	0.0089	−5.6311
Education^f				−0.2644^***	0.0667	−3.9647	−0.2986	0.2035	−1.4672	−0.1666	0.1397	−1.1932
Insurance^g				0.1496	0.1377	1.0862	4.8480	4.8685	0.9958	0.9840^***	0.2904	3.3877
Severity^h				0.6134^*	0.2713	2.3266	3.1523^***	0.4931	6.3928	4.3671^***	0.4465	9.7792
Class share	N	%		N	%		N	%		N	%
Predicted membership	551	27.29		763	37.79		15	0.74		690	34.18

Note: In this section, only the significant values are highlighted in bold. The cost and age are continuity variables
^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01; ^***p < 0.001
^aCompared with western medicine
^bCompared with integrated TCM and WM
^cCompared with less than or equal to 30mins
^dCompared with GP
^ecompared with male
^fCompared with shorter length of education(≤9 years)
^gCompared without basic medical insurance
^hCompared with the assumption that have minor chronic disease

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