Patient Delay in Hospital Visiting and the Weekend Effect of Surveillance Report on Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Epidemic Parotitis in Hanzhong City, China

Table 3

Comparisons of durations of delay in patient hospital visiting for epidemic parotitis across different factors.

Factors	Durations of delay in patient hospital visiting (days)				Statistics	values
	0–1	2-3	4–7	>7
Year					48.823	<0.001
2014	558 (72.1)	159 (20.5)	44 (5.7)	13 (1.7)
2015	356 (65.0)	142 (25.9)	42 (7.7)	8 (1.5)
2016	635 (62.3)	252 (24.7)	104 (10.2)	29 (2.8)
2017	1001 (59.9)	424 (25.4)	202 (12.1)	44 (2.6)
Gender					1.749	0.626
Male	1439 (63.5)	541 (23.9)	229 (10.1)	57 (2.5)
Female	1111 (63.6)	436 (25.0)	163 (9.3)	37 (2.1)
Classification of disease					3.089	0.378
Clinically diagnosed cases	2533 (63.6)	968 (24.3)	388 (9.7)	92 (2.3)
Confirmed cases	17 (53.1)	9 (28.1)	4 (12.5)	2 (6.2)
Occupation					22.149	0.008
Children in childcare	455 (68.5)	150 (22.6)	50 (7.5)	9 (1.4)
Children not in childcare	165 (64.7)	65 (25.5)	19 (7.5)	6 (2.4)
Students	1611 (62.9)	623 (24.3)	270 (10.5)	57 (2.2)
Peasants and others	319 (59.8)	139 (26.1)	53 (9.9)	22 (4.1)
Age					22.431	0.008
<1 year	4 (50.0)	2 (25.0)	2 (25.0)	0 (0.0)
1–4 years	344 (66.9)	124 (24.2)	34 (6.6)	10 (2.0)
5–10 years	1377 (65.1)	494 (23.4)	203 (9.6)	41 (1.9)
>10 years	825 (59.9)	357 (25.9)	153 (11.1)	43 (3.1)
Epidemic season					8.227	0.042
Yes	1663 (64.8)	616 (24.0)	234 (9.1)	52 (2.0)
No	887 (61.3)	361 (24.9)	158 (10.9)	42 (2.9)