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Table 5 Financial effect of overall expenditure on colorectal cancer patient’s family

From: Expenditure and financial burden for the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer in China: a hospital-based, multicenter, cross-sectional survey

Characteristic

Expenditure of a newly diagnosed disease coursea (CNY)

Self-reported predicted reimbursement ratiob (%)

Out-of-pocket expenditureb,c (CNY) (A)

Previous-year household income (CNY) (B)

Expense-income ratio (A/B)

Self-reported financial pressuree [n (%)]

Value

P d

Not at all

Somewhat but manageable

Heavy

Overwhelmed

P f

Total

58,778

46.5

32,649

54,525

0.599

158 (6.7)

429 (18.3)

647 (27.6)

1111 (47.4)

Hospital type

 General

48,258

50.2

26,742

61,866

0.432

<0.001

70 (10.1)

128 (18.5)

200 (28.9)

294 (42.5)

<0.001

 Specialized

63,189

44.9

35,154

51,403

0.684

 

88 (5.3)

301 (18.2)

447 (27.0)

4817 (9.4)

 

Age at diagnosis (years)

 <45

59,930

41.3

36,670

56,888

0.645

0.019

12 (3.4)

61 (17.0)

75 (20.9)

210 (58.7)

<0.001

 45–54

62,643

46.8

34,621

57,088

0.606

 

34 (6.3)

86 (16.0)

142 (26.3)

277 (51.4)

 

 55–64

58,340

45.8

32,173

51,441

0.625

 

55 (7.0)

133 (16.9)

228 (29.0)

369 (47.0)

 

 ≥65

55,527

49.8

29,425

54,792

0.537

 

57 (8.6)

149 (22.5)

202 (30.5)

255 (38.5)

 

Sex

 Men

59,496

47.8

32,180

55,654

0.578

0.293

85 (6.4)

256 (19.2)

390 (29.2)

605 (45.3)

0.053

 Women

57,823

44.7

33,273

52,999

0.628

 

73 (7.2)

173 (17.1)

257 (25.5)

506 (50.1)

 

Education

 Primary school or below

56,196

40.8

33,563

43,647

0.769

<0.001

28 (3.9)

88 (12.1)

206 (28.4)

404 (55.6)

<0.001

 Junior high school

55,499

44.7

33,151

51,301

0.646

 

52 (6.7)

130 (16.7)

207 (26.6)

389 (50.0)

 

 Senior high school

62,019

50.1

31,598

62,863

0.503

 

44 (7.5)

136 (23.1)

172 (29.3)

236 (40.1)

 

 Undergraduate or higher

68,776

59.8

30,943

75,844

0.408

 

34 (13.4)

75 (29.6)

62 (24.5)

82 (32.4)

 

Occupation

 Farmer

56,812

37.0

36,961

37,845

0.977

<0.001

11 (1.3)

72 (8.6)

214 (25.4)

544 (64.7)

<0.001

 Enterprise or company employee/worker

59,787

56.7

28,593

60,396

0.473

 

53 (9.3)

123 (21.7)

166 (29.3)

225 (39.7)

 

 Self-employed or unemployee

51,594

35.1

33,266

57,242

0.581

 

23 (6.6)

48 (13.7)

93 (26.5)

187 (53.3)

 

 Retiree

64,059

60.3

28,342

69,155

0.410

 

27 (9.9)

89 (32.5)

82 (29.9)

76 (27.7)

 

 Public sector employee

66,992

58.8

29,102

72,026

0.404

 

34 (13.2)

84 (32.6)

82 (31.8)

58 (22.5)

 

 Other

59,806

31.1

42,908

74,245

0.578

 

10 (18.5)

13 (24.1)

10 (18.5)

21 (38.9)

 

Healthcare insurance type

 Urban employee basic medical insurance

62,021

58.8

28,021

65,258

0.429

<0.001

108 (11.8)

222 (24.3)

275 (30.1)

308 (33.7)

<0.001

 Urban resident basic medical insurance

56,065

49.1

29,482

50,466

0.584

 

18 (4.0)

110 (24.7)

116 (26.1)

201 (45.2)

 

 New rural cooperative medical scheme

56,880

35.1

37,684

43,898

0.858

 

20 (2.2)

81 (9.1)

235 (26.3)

556 (62.3)

 

 Commercial insurance

59,424

25.2

42,769

60,273

0.710

 

4 (18.2)

4 (4.5)

1 (22.7)

5 (54.5)

 

 Self-paid

47,771

0.0

47,771

79,956

0.597

 

5 (10.2)

5 (18.4)

9 (18.4)

9 (53.1)

 

 Other

80,807

64.9

39,869

57,855

0.689

 

3 (12.5)

6 (25.0)

7 (29.2)

8 (33.3)

 

Previous-year household income (CNY)

 <20,000

51,323

37.6

33,207

10,258

3.237

<0.001

6 (1.8)

20 (6.0)

61 (18.2)

249 (74.1)

<0.001

 20,000–39,999

58,978

44.8

34,618

26,072

1.328

 

34 (5.4)

66 (10.5)

160 (25.4)

371 (58.8)

 

 40,000–69,999

58,885

49.4

30,979

49,932

0.620

 

41 (6.2)

155 (23.3)

198 (29.8)

271 (40.8)

 

 ≥70,000

62,086

50.0

31,769

110,959

0.286

 

68 (10.7)

179 (28.1)

207 (32.5)

182 (28.6)

 

Clinical stage

 I

50,425

50.0

26,950

48,454

0.556

0.054

49 (15.0)

64 (19.6)

79 (24.2)

135 (41.3)

<0.001

 II

56,097

45.9

31,305

53,801

0.582

 

38 (6.1)

133 (21.2)

176 (28.1)

280 (44.7)

 

 III

59,782

45.0

32,969

53,401

0.617

 

43 (5.3)

139 (17.1)

233 (28.7)

398 (49.0)

 

 IV

65,209

47.7

36,610

61,333

0.597

 

27 (4.9)

91 (16.4)

154 (27.8)

282 (50.9)

 

Pathologic type

 Adenocarcinoma

59,653

46.9

32,756

55,065

0.595

0.139

142 (6.9)

373 (18.0)

565 (27.3)

990 (47.8)

0.083

 Other

52,955

44.8

31,272

51,593

0.606

 

12 (6.8)

38 (21.6)

59 (33.5)

67 (38.1)

 

Type of therapy

 Surgery

53,083

45.2

29,521

48,047

0.614

<0.001

82 (9.3)

172 (19.5)

262 (29.7)

367 (41.6)

<0.001

 Chemotherapy

62,476

47.9

34,846

61,024

0.571

 

43 (5.5)

123 (15.8)

205 (26.3)

409 (52.4)

 

 Surgery and postoperative chemotherapy

62,217

48.9

33,251

54,218

0.613

 

8 (2.4)

63 (18.9)

95 (28.5)

167 (50.2)

 

 Symptomatic treatment

47,408

41.3

29,608

60,538

0.489

 

22 (10.0)

46 (21.0)

51 (23.3)

100 (45.7)

 

 Concurrent chemoradiotherapy

97,958

52.8

46,001

46,232

0.995

 

2 (3.2)

13 (21.0)

17 (27.4)

30 (48.4)

 

 Radiotherapy

79,945

42.0

46,824

56,359

0.831

 

0 (0.0)

6 (14.3)

10 (23.8)

26 (61.9)

 

 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery

77,269

48.1

43,154

36,200

1.192

 

0 (0.0)

5 (31.3)

4 (25.0)

7 (43.8)

 
  1. CNY Chinese Yuan
  2. aTwo months before and ten months after diagnosis
  3. bThe data of 12 patients were missing
  4. cOut-of-pocket expenditure = [∑(1 − self-reported predicted reimbursement ratio) × medical expenditure of a newly diagnosed course + non-medical expenditure of a newly diagnosed course]/n; n refers to the sample size
  5. dTwo-sample Student’s t test after logarithm transition was used for binary classification variables, including hospital type, sex, and pathologic type; analysis of variance test after logarithm transition was used for other multiple categorical variables, including age at diagnosis, education, occupation, insurance type, household income, and therapeutic regimen
  6. eThe data of 11 patients were missing for hospital type, age at diagnosis, sex, education, occupation and insurance type; the data of 21, 35, 88 and 110 patients were missing for type of therapy, clinical stage, household income and pathologic type, respectively
  7. fWe classified “not at all” and “somewhat but manageable” as manageable burdens and the other two responses as unmanageable burdens. The Chi square test was used for subgroup comparisons