A comparative study on the influencing factors of medical behaviors for both urban and rural residents in Hubei province / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the influencing factors of the medical behaviors between urban and rural residents in Hubei province .Methods The survey selected 454 families in Wuhan and Macheng ;investigated their family income ,health condition and medical behaviors ,multiple correspondence and logistic regression were applied to study the influence factors of medical behaviors . Results 845 people(85.05％ )selected primary medical institutions ,and 126 people(12.83％ )selected secondary medical institution in Macheng ;321 people(47.53％ )selected primary medical institutions , and 283 people (42.30％ )selected tertiary medical institutions in Wuhan ;Macheng and Wuhan′s Cronbach′s alpha reliability coefficients for multiple correspondence model are 0.57 and 0.72 respectively ,and nagelkerke R2 for logistic regression model are 0.56 and 0.59 respectively ;Both urban and rural residents selected medical institutions depending on types of diseases ;family income influences the selection of medical institution of Macheng residents ;age and economic contribution have a great effect on medical behaviors of Wuhan resident .Conclusions Family economic income constitutes a major factor for senior people ,while such factor poses different influences over different medical insurance and economic level of these people .