Table 4 Impact of cancer on the number of T&CAM sessions based on Panel negative binomial regression (n = 49,380)
Variables | Coef.†| p-value |
|---|---|---|
Explanatory variable | ||
Having cancer | ||
 No (Ref) | ||
 Yes | 0.11 | 0.040* |
Control variable | ||
Age (Year) | 0.01 | 0.831 |
Spouse | ||
 No (Ref) | ||
 Yes | -0.11 | 0.009** |
Education | ||
 Elementary or lower (Ref) | ||
 Middle school or high school | -0.11 | 0.020* |
 University or higher | -0.24 | <0.0001*** |
Region | ||
 Urban (Ref) | ||
 Rural | 0.01 | 0.779 |
Household income ∮ (10,000 won) | 0.00 | 0.132 |
Health care coverage | ||
 National health insurance (Ref) | ||
 Medical benefits | 0.21 | 0.008** |
 special cases | -0.15 | 0.217 |
Chronic musculo-skeletal diseases | ||
 No (Ref) | ||
 Yes | 0.32 | <0.0001*** |
Chronic neural diseases | ||
 No (Ref) | ||
 Yes | 0.12 | 0.049* |
Chronic circulatory diseases | ||
 No (Ref) | ||
 Yes | -0.04 | 0.314 |
Chronic respiratory diseases | ||
 No (Ref) | ||
 Yes | 0.01 | 0.922 |
Quality of life (EQ-5D) | 0.38 | 0.007** |
Year | ||
 2011 (Ref) | ||
 2012 | 0.14 | <0.0001*** |
 2013 | 0.20 | <0.0001*** |
 2014 | 0.11 | 0.001** |
 2016 | 0.11 | 0.002** |
constant | -2.04 | <0.0001*** |
Log likelihood | -24752.256 | |