Table 3 Resource use by health care sector and study condition, six months pre-enrollment versus six months post-enrolment
6 months pre-enrollment | 6 months post-enrollment | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention (n = 509) | CAU (n = 504) | Between-group differences | Intervention | CAU | Between-group differences | ||||||||
% | n | % | n | χ2 | p | % | n (ntotal) | % | n (ntotal) | χ2 | p | ||
Medication | 80.7 | 411 | 81.3 | 410 | 0.060 | 0.807 | 81.4 | 285 (350) | 78.1 | 271 (347) | 1.198 | 0.274 | |
Outpatient medical care | General practitioner | 85.9 | 437 | 85.9 | 433 | 0.001 | 0.979 | 79.3 | 279 (352) | 82.8 | 289 (349) | 1.434 | 0.231 |
Psychiatrist/psychologist | 30.1 | 153 | 31.5 | 159 | 0.263 | 0.608 | 34.7 | 122 (352) | 32.7 | 114 (349) | 0.312 | 0.576 | |
Psychotherapist | 36.1 | 184 | 33.5 | 169 | 0.764 | 0.382 | 38.9 | 137 (352) | 42.4 | 148 (349) | 0.883 | 0.347 | |
Neurologist | 14.3 | 73 | 17.1 | 86 | 1.418 | 0.234 | 16.2 | 57 (352) | 18.6 | 65 (349) | 0.721 | 0.396 | |
Psychiatric day care unit | 3.7 | 19 | 4.8 | 24 | 0.660 | 0.417 | 4.3 | 15 (352) | 4.6 | 16 (349) | 0.430 | 0.835 | |
Internist | 17.1 | 87 | 15.7 | 79 | 0.371 | 0.542 | 21.9 | 77 (352) | 16.0 | 56 (349) | 3.873 | 0.490 | |
Gynecologist/urologist | 40.5 | 206 | 39.3 | 198 | 0.149 | 0.700 | 33.8 | 119 (352) | 37.2 | 130 (349) | 0.907 | 0.341 | |
Surgeon and/or orthopedist | 18.9 | 96 | 20.6 | 104 | 0.503 | 0.478 | 23.3 | 82 (352) | 16.6 | 58 (349) | 4.888 | 0.027 | |
Dermatologist | 19.3 | 98 | 17.7 | 89 | 0.428 | 0.513 | 19.3 | 68 (352) | 17.8 | 62 (349) | 0.280 | 0.597 | |
Ophthalmologist | 14.7 | 75 | 16.1 | 81 | 0.347 | 0.556 | 19.3 | 68 (352) | 16.6 | 58 (349) | 0.866 | 0.352 | |
Dentist | 62.1 | 316 | 59.5 | 300 | 0.696 | 0.404 | 54.5 | 192 (352) | 59.3 | 207 (349) | 1.624 | 0.203 | |
Outpatient hospital treatment | 12.6 | 64 | 12.9 | 65 | 0.240 | 0.877 | 8.5 | 30 (352) | 11.7 | 41 (349) | 2.003 | 0.157 | |
Outpatient paramedical services | Physiotherapy | 31.2 | 159 | 29.6 | 149 | 0.335 | 0.562 | 36.5 | 126 (345) | 27.8 | 95 (342) | 6.018 | 0.014 |
Logopedics | 0.8 | 4 | 0.6 | 3 | 1.000a | 0.9 | 3 (345) | 0.9 | 3 (342) | 1.000a | |||
Medical pedicure | 5.5 | 28 | 5.8 | 29 | 0.310 | 0.861 | 6.1 | 21 (345) | 7.6 | 26 (342) | 0.619 | 0.431 | |
Homeopathic practitioner/osteopath | 11.8 | 60 | 11.3 | 57 | 0.570 | 0.812 | 14.5 | 50 (345) | 12.9 | 44 (342) | 0.385 | 0.535 | |
Inpatient hospital treatment | Inpatient hospital treatment | 7.3 | 37 | 10.7 | 54 | 3.676 | 0.055 | 6.7 | 23 (345) | 6.7 | 23 (342) | 0.001 | 0.976 |
Psychiatric inpatient treatment | 6.9 | 35 | 7.7 | 39 | 0.278 | 0.598 | 2.0 | 7 (345) | 4.7 | 16 (342) | 3.726 | 0.540 | |
Rehab | Outpatient | 0.6 | 3 | 1.6 | 8 | 2.463 | 0.292 | 1.4 | 5 (345) | 1.2 | 4 (342) | 2.154 | 0.341 |
Inpatient | 6.3 | 32 | 6.7 | 34 | 5.8 | 20 (345) | 3.5 | 12 (342) | |||||
Sickness benefit | 9.5 | 48 | 12.2 | 61 | 1.947 | 0.163 | 7.0 | 24 (352) | 9.5 | 32 (349) | 1.324 | 0.250 | |