Table 4 Health seeking behaviours of respondents
From: Health status and health service utilization in remote and mountainous areas in Vietnam
| Â | Male | Female | Total | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | N | % | N | % | N | % | Â |
Health services utilizations | |||||||
 Community health center | 71 | 93.42 | 121 | 97.58 | 192 | 96 | 0.14 |
 District hospital | 26 | 34.21 | 58 | 46.77 | 84 | 42 | 0.08 |
 Province hospital or above level | 19 | 25.00 | 18 | 14.52 | 37 | 18.5 | 0.61 |
 Private clinic | 5 | 6.58 | 8 | 6.45 | 13 | 6.5 | 0.97 |
 Traditional healers | 11 | 14.47 | 26 | 20.97 | 37 | 18.5 | 0.45 |
 Self-treatment | 19 | 25.00 | 24 | 19.35 | 43 | 21.5 | 0.35 |
Accessibility to health service | |||||||
 Difficult to access health service | 21 | 27.63 | 38 | 30.65 | 59 | 29.5 | 0.65 |
 Difficult to access traditional medicine service | 9 | 11.84 | 13 | 10.48 | 22 | 11 | 0.77 |
| Â | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Â |
Traditional medicine package use | |||||||
 Frequency of use (times/yr.) | 6.29 | 4.40 | 5.56 | 3.25 | 5.84 | 3.73 | 0.09 |
 Frequency of refiling the traditional medicine | 3.47 | 2.74 | 3.02 | 1.86 | 3.20 | 2.24 | 0.08 |