At the same time, however, there was considerable heterogeneity in the changes in the different districts; for example, four of the 11 districts studied were not able to sustain the immediate impacts on utilization after 18 months of implementation, but utilization stagnated in only one of those four [ 49].
As shown in Table 2, during the last 12 months, the rate of utilization of inpatient care services among households with and without NCD patients was 18.9 and 6.4%, respectively.
After 42 months of the intervention, utilization of the CBVCT model was more than 10 times higher than utilization of SVCT in control communities, acriss sites [ 9].
As part of a chronic disease self-management intervention study, patients completed self-reports of their last six months of health care utilization.
Although utilization of fecal occult blood testing increased moderately between 1998 and 2000 (6.30% vs. 9.15% over 9 months, respectively), utilization of more invasive tests remained infrequent (6.26% in 1998 vs. 7.19% in 2000 receiving any invasive test; 3.17% in 1998 vs. 3.48% in 2000 receiving invasive tests for screening indications over 9 months).
The CRAS assessed demographics (including race, age, sex, education, sexual orientation, living situation) as well as information regarding sexual history (with primary partners or causal partners, sex under the influence), substance use (past 6 months, next 6 months), utilization of HIV prevention services, and perceptions regarding HIV/AIDS.
In Thailand, it was observed within the first 6 months of the intervention that utilization by the 18 to 32 year-old target population was higher on evenings and weekends, and intervention delivery was rescheduled for these times.
The two primary outcome measures were dental utilization during pregnancy or up to two months postpartum for the mother, and preventive dental utilization by 18 months of age for the child.
As expected, there was no difference in glucose utilization at 5 months of age (Figure 6C), presumably because both groups had excess fat mass by that time (Figure 3).
