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Table 1 Intervention group characteristics at baseline

From: Health insurance and social capital in Ghana: a cluster randomised controlled trial

 

Control group

Intervention group (combined)

P-value

Age (in years)

37.74

37.81

0.896

Sex (% women)

55.80

57.05

0.474

Region (% Western region)

46.78

52.11

0.002***

Religion (% Christian)

90.00

89.88

0.155

Household wealth

 Wealth quintile 1 (%)

16.65

17.71

0.902

 Wealth quintile 2 (%)

17.40

17.41

 Wealth quintile 3 (%)

19.55

18.73

 Wealth quintile 4 (%)

22.89

20.84

 Wealth quintile 5 (%)

23.52

25.3

Highest level of completed education

 No formal education (%)

12.98

13.77

0.139

 Less than primary school (%)

3.74

2.55

 Primary school (%)

9.94

9.28

 Middle/junior secondary school (%)

39.14

40.45

 Secondary/senior secondary school (%)

21.72

19.35

 Vocational/polytechnical training (%)

7.54

8.79

 Higher education (%)

4.94

5.82

Is your health better or worse than of other people of the same sex and age in the community

 Better (%)

61.62

59.6

0.01**

 The same (%)

34.35

37.48

 Worse (%)

4.02

2.92

The share of respondents paying for consultation and drugs during last healthcare provider visit

 Pay for consultation (%)

21.56

18.67

0.04**

 Pay for drugs (%)

47.23

46.87

0.838

  1. Note: The p-values refer to the results of the chi-square test, except for age where independent t-test with unequal assumed variances is used; * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001