Cyberchondria severity and utilization of health services in Polish society: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Univariate nonparametric analysis of cyberchondria severity depending on the frequency of utilization of healthcare services and alternative medicine

Variable	Variable category	Mean (SD)	p
Visits to family physicians	no visits	63.2 (20.6)^ab	H = 32.72, df = 3, p < 0.001
	one visit	66.5 (19.8)^c
	two or three visits	69.3 (19.9)^a
	more than three visits	71.9 (20.8)^bc
Visits to specialists	no visits	63.2 (19.5)^abc	H = 32.99, df = 3, p < 0.001
	one visit	68.8 (19.1)^a
	two or three visits	70.2 (21.0)^b
	more than three visits	72.4 (20.7)^c
Diagnostic procedures	no use	66.7 (20.6)^a	H = 19.80, df = 3, p < 0.001
	once	68.8 (19.5)^b
	two or three times	69.2 (20.1)^c
	more than three times	71.3 (20.4)^abc
Hospital admission	no admission	67.0 (19.7)^ab	H = 50.41, df = 2, p < 0.001
	one admission	72.1 (20.4)^ac
	more than one admission	79.2 (23.2)^bc
Emergency services	no use	66.5 (19.4)^ab	H = 63.25, df = 2, p < 0.001
	once	73.4 (20.3)^ac
	more than once	78.4 (23.9)^bc
Alternative medicine	no use	67.4 (19.8)^ab	H = 54.97, df = 2, p < 0.001
	once	79.4 (20.6)^a
	more than once	77.9 (22.5)^b
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination	not vaccinated	71.3 (20.8)	U=-3.621, p < 0.001
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination	vaccinated	67.6 (20.2)	U=-3.621, p < 0.001

p - p-value for U Mann-Whitney test in the case of the dichotomous grouping variable and the Kruskal-Wallis test for grouping variables with more than two categories; H– Kruskall-Wallis test statistics; U– U Mann-Whitney test statistics, df– degrees of freedom; a, b, c,– the same letter shows categories of variables significantly different in posthoc test after applying Bonferroni correction

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