Association of travel time with mental health service use in primary health care according to contact type — a register-based study in Kainuu, Finland

Table 2 Statistically significant differences in different types of contacts between health centre areas

	Hyr	Kaj	Kuh	Pal	Puo	Ris	Sot	Suo	Vuo
Contact type	Mean ranks (number of significant differences between areas*)
ipv	3351 (4)	3985 (5)	3715 (5)	3674 (2)	3384 (4)	3257 (4)	3697 (4)	3900 (5)	3826 (3)
rc	3901 (0)	3854 (3)	4151 (4)	4040 (2)	3946 (2)	3395 (1)	3495 (4)	3481 (4)	4042 (0)
hv	4314 (5)	3583 (5)	4325 (5)	3747 (3)	3587 (4)	3552 (4)	3838 (4)	4277 (5)	4193 (3)

Hyr (Hyrynsalmi); Kaj (Kajaani); Kuh (Kuhmo); Pal (Paltamo); Puo (Puolanka); Ris (Ristijärvi); Sot (Sotkamo); Suo (Suomussalmi); Vuo (Vuolijoki)
Kruskal–Wallis test:
ipv = in-person visits: H (df 8, N 7643) = 63,28; p < 0,001
rc = remote contacts: H (df 8, N 7643) = 78,08; p < 0,001
hv = home visits: H (df 8, N 7643) = 306,19; p < 0,001
^*Dunn’s pairwise comparisons with Bonferroni corrections: p < 0,05
The population (N = 7643) consists of patients using primary health care mental health services according to the Finnish Care Register for Health Care in the Kainuu region from 2015–2019 (deceased patients are excluded)

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