Addiction and the Utilization of Medical Care

Table 2

Characteristics of the study sample.

	All persons	Persons with DD	Persons with SM	Persons with CBN	No; addictive; factors
%^a (Total no.)	100 (13,645)	4.60 (627)	3.35 (457)	7.17 (979)	87.06 (11,885)
Socio-demographic variables
Male	51.95	89.63	91.25	91.83	46.19
Age (Years)	35.84	40.33	45.09	39.87	35.03
12–20	17.10	1.59	2.63	2.45	19.27
21–35	33.28	34.93	19.47	34.53	33.65
36–50	31.20	43.86	40.48	46.68	29.33
51–64	18.42	19.62	37.42	16.34	17.75
Married	52.44	58.37	74.84	64.35	50.53
Education Years	11.06	10.23	11.32	9.65	11.17
Primary school and below	16.18	18.02	16.19	20.02	15.90
Junior High	19.90	30.14	19.26	33.71	18.59
Senior High	33.36	35.73	33.04	39.02	32.86
College and above	30.56	16.11	31.51	7.25	32.65
Individual monthly income
NT $ 0	26.40	6.86	13.57	7.86	28.93
NT $ 1–19,999	23.85	21.85	19.69	25.94	23.97
NT $ 20,000–39,999	29.57	35.41	28.45	39.33	28.64
NT $ 40,000–59,999	13.07	21.37	19.04	19.31	12.15
NT $ ≥ 60,000	7.11	14.51	19.25	7.56	6.31
Health status
BMI	23.04	24.39	24.35	24.93	22.80
Heart disease	3.22	2.07	7.22	3.68	3.10
Hypertension	7.99	12.60	15.97	10.32	7.35
Diabetes	3.09	3.99	7.22	5.72	2.73
Cholesterol	10.52	13.72	21.01	12.26	9.84
Stroke	0.46	0.80	2.41	0.72	0.35
Geographic variables
Residential locations
North	48.03	46.73	48.36	33.71	49.00
Center	20.96	16.59	23.63	22.47	20.88
South	23.85	22.33	22.76	28.40	23.65
East	7.16	14.35	5.25	15.42	6.47

DD: deep drunk; SM: smoking cigarettes; CBN: chewing betel nut.
^aThe rows add up to >100% because some individuals had multiple addictive factors.