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Table 2 Socio-demographic and CNCD-related characteristics of entire sample and CNCD respondents

From: Determinants of health seeking behavior for chronic non-communicable diseases and related out-of-pocket expenditure: results from a cross-sectional survey in northern Bangladesh

Variable

Entire sample

CNCD sample1

 

N = 6958

N = 866

 Continuous variables

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

  Age (years)

35.99

15.21

43.83

16.14

  Distance to the referral public health facility of the sub-district (km)

5.54

3.82

4.91

3.63

  Household size (number of members)

4.64

1.78

4.32

1.71

  Duration of illness (months)

NA

NA

43.77

60.76

  Proportion of household members with CNCD

NA

NA

0.41

0.24

 Categorical variables

N

%

N

%

  Sex:

    

    Male

3518

50.56

401

46.3

    Female

3440

49.44

465

53.7

  Education:

    

    No schooling

2751

39.55

435

50.23

    Primary level education and above

4205

60.45

431

49.77

  Marital status:

    

    Currently not married

1276

18.34

75

8.66

    Currently married

5682

81.66

791

91.34

  Occupational status:

    

    Non-income generating

3749

53.88

486

56.12

    Income generating

3209

46.12

380

43.88

  Presence of acute illness patient in household:

    

    No

2471

35.51

204

23.56

    Yes

4487

64.49

662

76.44

 Category of CNCDs:

    

  Minor CNCDs

NA

NA

555

64.09

  Major CNCDs

NA

NA

311

35.91

 Asset Quintile/socio-economic status:

    

  1st quintile (poorest)

1095

15.74

155

17.9

  2nd quintile

1256

18.05

163

18.82

  3rd quintile

1351

19.42

150

17.32

  4th quintile

1479

21.26

183

21.13

  5th quintile (least poor)

1777

25.54

215

24.83

 Being household head:

    

  No

4466

64.19

492

56.81

  Yes

2492

35.81

374

43.19

 Microfinance involvement of household head and/or spouse:

    

  Not involved

3962

56.94

410

47.34

  Involved

2996

43.06

456

52.66

 Rural or urban residence:

    

  Rural

3372

48.46

364

42.03

  Urban

3586

51.54

502

57.97

 Sub-district of residence:

    

  Rangpur Sadar

1341

19.27

83

9.58

  Mithapukur

1394

20.03

473

54.62

  Badarganj

1473

21.17

49

5.66

  Pirganj

1298

18.65

109

12.59

  Pirgacha

1452

20.87

152

17.55

  1. CNCDs, chronic non-communicable diseases; NA, not applicable; SD, standard deviation; km, kilometer
  2. 1Respondents reported to have at least one chronic non-communicable disease