Prevalence and Risk Factors for Fall among Rural Elderly: A County-Based Cross-Sectional Survey

Table 3

Comparison of the treatments and outcomes of unintentional injuries between the genders in a rural elderly population.

`	Total		Sex				P-value
			Male		Female
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Treatment
No treatment	212	29.6	67	32.6	113	28	0.403
Self-treatment	122	21.6	37	18.1	95	23.4
Town hospitals	92	16.3	34	16.6	65	16.1
District hospitals	88	15.6	35	17.1	60	14.8
Village clinics	60	10.6	18	8.8	47	11.6
City-level hospitals
Or above	22	3.9	11	5.2	13	3.2
Private clinic	14	2.5	3	1.6	12	3
Hospitalization
Yes	136	22.3	57	27.7	79	19.5	0.029
No	474	77.7	149	72.3	325	80.5
Fall severity
No adverse reaction	224	36.7	94	45.5	129	32	<0.01
Discomfort	184	30.1	41	19.9	144	35.7
Physical activity limited	203	33.2	71	34.7	130	32.3
Types of payments
New type of rural cooperative medical system	321	52.6	105	51.1	215	53.3	0.289a
Self-paying	235	38.5	79	38.2	157	38.8
Urban residents’ health insurance	40	6.5	13	6.1	27	6.7
Free medical service	13	2.1	8	3.8	5	1.2
Commercial insurance	2	0.3	2	0.8	0	0
Limited function
Without limitations	228	37.3	87	42	141	34.8	0.300
1–14 days	138	22.7	37	18.2	101	25
15–30 days	52	8.6	16	8	36	8.9
1–3 m	87	14.3	33	15.9	54	13.4
>3 m	104	17.1	33	15.9	72	17.9