Evolution of Experience of Care of Patients with and without Chronic Diseases following a Québec Primary Healthcare Reform

Table 4

Percentage (%) of users having at least one chronic disease according to selected characteristics, 2003–2005 and 2008–2010.

		2003–2005			2008–2010
		Control	Experimental		Control	Experimental
		()	()		()	()
Sex	Male	33.8	34.3	0.732	39.1	39.2	0.916
	Female	66.2	65.7		60.9	60.8
Age	18–29	11.3	9.3	0.050	4.7	5.0	0.709
	30–44	21.0	23.2	0.113	13.6	16.5	0.007
	45–64	43.5	42.8	0.645	47.5	46.4	0.505
	65 or more	24.2	24.8	0.700	34.3	32.1	0.135
Level of education	No diploma	19.5	23.3	0.005	18.5	21.4	0.018
	High school diploma	32.7	34.9	0.174	31.3	32.1	0.538
	Collegial diploma	24.2	22.0	0.115	19.6	19.7	0.932
	University diploma	23.5	19.8	0.006	30.7	26.8	0.005
Economic status	Lowest	13.4	12.7	0.518	12.2	12.0	0.841
	Medium-low	32.1	34.7	0.101	31.8	31.8	0.975
	Medium-high	29.8	30.0	0.878	33.7	35.7	0.158
	Highest	24.7	22.7	0.141	22.3	20.5	0.130
Immigration status	Born in Canada	84.2	91.2	<0.001	84.1	88.8	<0.001
	Imm. <10 years	2.8	1.5	0.018	1.7	2.3	0.131
	Imm. ≥10 years	13.1	7.3	<0.001	14.2	8.9	<0.001
Perceived health	Bad/average	25.2	26.6	0.346	23.7	23.2	0.695
	Good	34.2	33.9	0.854	33.7	34.4	0.632
	Very good	28.9	28.3	0.671	31.2	30.1	0.457
	Excellent	11.7	11.2	0.676	11.5	12.3	0.384
Chronic disease	Cardiac	12.8	12.7	0.951	13.0	16.2	0.002
	Respiratory	24.0	26.2	0.131	24.4	22.9	0.241
	Musculoskeletal	39.3	41.4	0.214	39.6	41.1	0.323
	Cardiometabolic	41.9	40.6	0.401	52.7	50.9	0.241
	Other chronic diseases	53.3	54.1	0.622	39.8	40.7	0.518

Difference of proportions test.