Allied health and community services use, mean number of visits per patient over past 3 months, comparing self-identified indigenous to non-indigenous participants. Reported as mean (SD) unless indicated.
| Inception | Final Visit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous, n = 90 | Non-indigenous, n = 1400 | p | Indigenous, n = 79 | Non-indigenous, n = 1288 | p | |
| Allied health services | ||||||
| Physiotherapy | 0.4 (1.7) | 0.5 (2.2) | 0.88 | 0.1 (0.7) | 0.2 (1.4) | 0.25 |
| Occupational therapy | 0.1 (0.4) | 0.1 (1.1) | 0.88 | 0.1 (0.5) | 0.0 (0.4) | 0.58 |
| Chiropractor | 0.0 (0.4) | 0.3 (1.5) | 0.08 | 0.0 (0.2) | 0.2 (1.2) | 0.11 |
| Acupuncture | 0.1 (0.0) | 0.2 (1.1) | 0.53 | 0.0 (0.1) | 0.1 (0.7) | 0.35 |
| Massage | 0.2 (1.2) | 0.3 (1.3) | 0.18 | 0.0 (0.1) | 0.3 (1.6) | 0.01 |
| Community services | ||||||
| Any service used, % | 8.1 | 3.2 | 0.03 | 7.7 | 3.3 | 0.05 |
| Paid for services, % | 9.8 | 9.4 | 0.85 | 6.4 | 8.2 | 0.83 |
| Home help, hours/week | 0.6 (2.5), median 0 (range 0–20) | 0.3 (3.5), median 0 (range 0–12) | 0.02 | 0.1 (0.7), median 0 (range 0–6) | 0.3 (1.9), median 0 (range 0–40) | 0.78 |
| Childcare, hours/week | 0.0 (0.0), median 0 (range 0–40) | 0.1 (1.3), median 0 (range 0–40) | 0.42 | 0.0 (0.0), median 0 (range 0–0) | 0.0 (0.4), median 0 (range 0–10) | 0.67 |