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Table 3 Probability of using medical services Logistic regression models, adjusted for age, sex and height

From: Are health risk attitude and general risk attitude associated with healthcare utilization, costs and working ability? Results from the German KORA FF4 cohort study

Dependent variable

Proportion (yes)

G-WTTR

H-WTTR

 

OR [95% CI]

OR [95% CI]

Physician visit

(3 months)

65.6%

0.91 [0.82–1.01]

0.90* [0.81–0.99]

Hospital treatment

(12 months)

19.8%

1.01 [0.88–1.16]

1.00 [0.87–1.14]

Rehabilitation

(12 months)

4.6%

0.85 [0.67–1.07]

0.99 [0.79–1.23]

Physical therapy

(12 months)

32.6%

0.96 [0.87–1.06]

0.89* [0.81–0.99]

Alternative Physician

(12 months)

9.9%

0.96 [0.82–1.13]

0.93 [0.79–1.09]

Medication intake

(7 days)

62.3%

0.82** [0.74–0.91]

0.95 [0.86–1.05]

  1. **significant at the 1% level/ * significant at the 5% level
  2. G-WTTR: Willingness to take risk in general; H-WTTR: Willingness to take risk regarding health