Economic crises and coping mechanisms | Dhaka (urban) | Matlab (rural) | ||||
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COPD | HT | Comorbidity | COPD | HT | Comorbidity | |
Faced some financial problems | 12.5** | 3.3 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 |
Coping mechanism $ | ||||||
Sold household assets | 1.1** | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
Spent/reduced savings | 4.3** | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
Reduced expenditure on food | 6.5** | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
Borrowed money from relative/friend | 7.1** | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Others | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
No. of patients (N) | 184 | 246 | 53 | 292 | 140 | 74 |