Research Article
Health Insurance Ownership and Quality of Computed Tomography Requests: Experience from a Peripheral Referral Hospital in Cameroon
Table 1
Demographic and socioprofessional characteristics of study participants.
| | Variables | Frequency (%) |
| | Age group (years; N = 344) | | 18–24 | 21 (5.7) | | 25–34 | 51 (13.7) | | 35–44 | 55 (14.8) | | 45–54 | 76 (20.4) | | 55–64 | 55 (14.8) | | >65 | 114 (30.6) | | Sex (N = 372) | | Female | 167 (44.9) | | Male | 205 (55.1) | | Marital status (N = 372) | | Married | 232 (62.7) | | Single | 83 (22.3) | | Widow (er) | 42 (11.3) | | Divorced | 11 (3.0) | | Living in union | 4 (1.1) | | Educational achievement (N = 347) | | <O level | 158 (45.5) | | O level or equivalent | 61 (17.6) | | A level or equivalent | 64 (18.4) | | Degree or equivalent | 45 (13.0) | | Master and above | 19 (5.5) | | Employment status (N = 294) | | Employed, with contract | 82 (27.9) | | Employed, with no contract | 2 (0.7) | | Self-employed | 115 ( 39.1) | | Unemployed | 12 (4.1) | | Retired | 83 (28.2) | | Socioeconomic status quintiles (N = 370) from the lowest (1) to the highest (5) | | SES quintile 1 | 74 (20.0) | | SES quintile 2 | 75 (20.3) | | SES quintile 3 | 75 (20.3) | | SES quintile 4 | 79 (21.4) | | SES quintile 5 | 67 (18.1) | | Health insurance ownership (N = 370) | | Yes | 38 (10.3) | | No | 332 (89.7) |
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