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Table 4 Opportunity costs for healthcare-seeking at the health centres by location

From: Household health care-seeking costs: experiences from a randomized, controlled trial of community-based malaria and pneumonia treatment among under-fives in eastern Uganda

Variable

Rural (n = 159)

Urban (n = 123)

Overall (n = 282)

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Travel time (minutes)

90.4

74.0

55.7

58.9

75.3

69.9

Waiting time (minutes)

59.6

70.3

106.5

71.0

80.0

74.2

Total time (minutes)

150.0

98.9

162.1

94.0

155.3

96.8

Distance (km)

1.3

5.1

1.6

3.4

1.5

4.4