Research Article
Analysing the Influence of Health Insurance Status on Peoples’ Health Seeking Behaviour in Rural Ghana
Table 2
Selected questions regarding participants’ healthcare use.
| | Variables | Categories | Health Insurance Status | Total | χ2 sig ( value) | | Insured () | Uninsured () | | (%) | | (%) | | (%) |
| | Quality of service | Very poor | 0 | (0.0) | 7 | (4.7) | 7 | (2.5) | | | Poor | 12 | (9.0) | 16 | (10.7) | 28 | (9.9) | | | Satisfactory | 57 | (42.7) | 71 | (47.3) | 128 | (45.2) | | | Good | 51 | (38.2) | 15 | (10.0) | 66 | (23.3) | 0.000 | | Very good | 10 | (7.5) | 0 | (0.0) | 10 | (3.6) | | | Missing | 3 | (2.6) | 41 | (27.3) | 44 | (15.5) | |
| | Attitude of staff | Very poor | 4 | (3.0) | 8 | (5.3) | 12 | (4.2) | | | Poor | 28 | (21.1) | 52 | (34.7) | 80 | (28.3) | | | Satisfactory | 58 | (43.5) | 53 | (35.3) | 111 | (39.2) | | | Good | 25 | (18.5) | 3 | (2.0) | 28 | (9.9) | 0.001 | | Very good | 15 | (11.3) | 0 | (0.0) | 15 | (5.3) | | | Missing | 3 | (2.6) | 34 | (22.7) | 37 | (13.1) | |
| | Healthcare use | 0 (rarely) | 10 | (7.5) | 78 | (52.0) | 88 | (43.3) | | | 1 (irregularly) | 56 | (42.2) | 67 | (44.7) | 123 | (43.5) | 0.000 | | 2 (moderately) | 32 | (24.1) | 5 | (3.3) | 37 | (13.1) | | | 3 (regularly) | 21 | (15.7) | 0 | (0.0) | 21 | (7.4) | | | 4 (very regularly) | 14 | (10.5) | 0 | (0.0) | 14 | (6.9) | |
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