Gender difference in knowledge of tuberculosis and associated health-care seeking behaviors: a cross-sectional study in a rural area of China

Table 2 Relation between social economic and demographic characteristics and health-care seeking behavior

	Seeking health-care
Variables	No (n = 56)	Yes (n = 115)	P
Gender
Men	41	58	0.005^†
Women	15	57
Age (years)
Mean ± SD	65.3 ± 14.7	63.2 ± 13.3	0.362^‡
Household per capita income (CNY)
Median	3000	4000	0.042*
Education (years)
Illiterate	18	47	0.477^†
Primary school	21	41
Secondary school and above	17	27
Marital status
Single/married	46	94	0.949^†
Divorced/bereft of spouse	10	21

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