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Table 3 Characteristics of patients and different types of health centre contacts in different travel time distance

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

 

Travel time minutes to nearest health centre

 
 

 ≤ 15,0

15,1–30,0

 > 30,0

Total

Patients, n (%)

7076 (92,6)

429 (5,6)

138 (1,8)

7643 (100,0)

 Gender

  Men

2886 (40,8)

187 (43,6)

69 (50,0)

3142 (41,1)

  Women

4190 (59,2)

242(56,4)

69 (50,0)

4501 (58,9)

 Age (median)

47

51

58

48

 Mental health diseasesa, n (%)

4955(70,0)

284 (66,2)

98 (71,0)

5337 (69,8)

 In-person visits, n (%)

6583 (93,0)

407 (94,9)

129 (93,5)

7119 (93,1)

 Remote contacts, n (%)

4528 (64,0)

244 (56,9)

83 (60,1)

4855 (63,5)

 Home visits, n (%)

1398 (19,8)

75 (17,5)

30 (21,7)

1503 (19,7)

In-person visits n

181,776

9449

2218

193,443

 mean (sd)

25,7 (78,4)

22,0 (50,1)

16,1 (31,1)

25,3 (76,5)

 median (range)

6 (0–1589)

5 (0–500)

5 (0–248)

6 (0–1589)

Remote contacts, n

28,083

1202

487

29,772

 mean (sd)

4,0 (14,2)

2,8 (6,5)

3,5 (7,6)

3,9 (13,8)

 median (range)

1 (0–647)

1 (0–87)

1 (0–43)

1 (0–647)

Home visits, n

31,100

732

194

32,026

 mean (sd)

4,4 (25,6)

1,7 (8,8)

1,4 (6,9)

4,2 (25,0)

 median (range)

0 (0–653)

0 (0–105)

0 (0–72)

0 (0–653)

  1. aPsychiatric and behavioural diseases related to substance abuse; schizophrenia and delusional diseases; mood disorders; or neurotic, stress-related and somatoform diseases including eating disorders; or sleeping disorders
  2. In-person visits: service in doctor’s or health care personnel’s office
  3. Remote contacts: service via phone, e-mail, internet, text message, video, letter or fax
  4. Home visits: services in patients’ place of residence
  5. 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)