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Table 1 Gender, baseline parents´ healthcare usage, and equivalised disposable income (adjustment variables) before, under and after CHAMPS for the CHAMPS-Group, National Controls and Local Controls

From: Does children’s healthcare seeking change after participation in a musculoskeletal study? A register-based study

Variable

 

CHAMPS-Group N (%)

National Controls N (%)

Local Controls N (%)

Period 1: Before (1998–2008) *

Overall N

 

1550

38,154

2198

Gender

Girls

808 (52.1%)

18,717 (49.1)

1090 (49.6)

 

Boys

742 (47.9)

19,437 (50.9)

1108 (50.4)

Incomea (tertiles)

Low

393 (25.4)

12,650 (33.2)

925 (42.1)

 

Middle

656 (42.3)

12,527 (32.8)

784 (35.7)

 

High

501 (32.3)

12,977 (34.0)

489 (22.2)

Parents’ healthcare usageb (tertiles)

    

Physiotherapyc

Low

1036 (69.0)

25,024 (66.5)

1478 (67.9)

 

High

466 (31.0)

12,633 (33.5)

698 (32.1)

Chiropracticc

Low

972 (64.7)

27,880 (74.0)

1468 (67.5)

 

High

530 (35.3)

9777 (26.0)

708 (32.5)

General practice

Low

454 (30.2)

12,735 (33.8)

590 (27.1)

 

Middle

464 (30.9)

12,645 (33.6)

669 (30.7)

 

High

584 (38.9)

12,277 (32.6)

917 (42.1)

Total

Low

405 (27.0)

12,802 (34.0)

572 (26.3)

 

Middle

443 (29.5)

12,692 (33.7)

643 (29.5)

 

High

654 (43.5)

12,163 (32.3)

961 (44.2)

Period 2: During (2009–2014) *

Overall N

 

1555

37.938

2182

Gender

Girls

808 (52.0)

18,603 (49.0)

1083 (49.6)

 

Boys

747 (48.0)

19,335 (51.0)

1099 (50.4)

Incomeb (tertiles)

Low

424 (27.3)

12,595 (33.2)

873 (40.0)

 

Middle

593 (38.1)

12,526 (33.0)

773 (35.4)

 

High

538 (34.6)

12,817 (33.8)

536 (24.6)

Period 3: After (2014–2019) *

Overall N

 

1553

37,730

2176

Gender

Girls

807 (52.0)

18,499 (49.0)

1082 (49.7)

 

Boys

746 (48.0)

19,231 (51.0)

1094 (50.3)

Incomeb (tertiles)

Low

396 (25.5)

12,506 (33.1)

918 (42.2)

 

Middle

586 (37.7)

12,483 (33.1)

751 (34.5)

 

High

571 (36.8)

12,741 (33.8)

507 (23.3)

  1. aTertiles were used to divide the equivalised disposable income in low, middle, and high
  2. bContacts per person-year. Tertiles were used to divide parents´ healthcare usage per person per year in low, middle, and high based on the children’s parent or guardian with the highest use of healthcare services who the child lived with
  3. cDue to the proportion of parents with none contacts with physiotherapy and chiropractic estimated tertiles results in only lower and upper
  4. * Cut date for 2008: 31.https://doi.org/10.2008/01.11.2008, and for 2014: 20.06.2014/21.06.2014