Establishing activity centers for elderly people in metropolitan areas of Vietnam: preference and willingness-to-pay

Figures & data

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of patients (n=121)

Characteristics	Frequency (n=121)	Percentage
Gender
Male	54	44.6
Female	67	55.4
Age groups
60–70	59	48.8
71–80	41	33.9
81–90	19	15.6
>90	2	1.7
Educational attainment
Illiterate	7	5.8
Primary school	17	14.1
Secondary school	28	23.1
≥High school	69	57.0
Income status
Depend on children	31	25.6
working	16	13.2
savings	11	9.1
Monthly pension	63	52.1
BMI group
Underweight	3	2.5
Normal	58	47.9
Overweight/obesity	60	49.6
Living with children
Yes	87	71.9
No	34	28.1
Taking care of grandchildren
Yes	37	31.9
No	79	68.1
Frequency of health check-ups
Never	5	4.1
Feel pain or discomfort	38	31.4
Several years	4	3.3
More than twice per year	74	61.2
Frequency of doing exercise
Never	8	6.6
Rarely, few times per month	8	6.6
Few times per week	15	12.4
Every day	90	74.4

Abbreviation: BMI, body mass index.

Table 2 The percentage of participants agreeing to establish an AC and pay monthly fees

Characteristics	Frequency (n)	Percentage (%)
Establish an AC
Yes	93	77.5
No	28	22.5
Pay monthly fees
Yes	66	71.7
No	26	28.3
Amount of payment to participate in AC
≥500.000 VND	14	50
<500.000 VND	14	50
Time spending at AC
1–8 hrs per week	54	58.1
>8 hrs per week	39	41.9

Abbreviation: AC, activity center.

Table 3 Percentage of preference’s level with popular activities

Activities	Dislike		Normal		Like		Extremely like
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Playing sports	60	49.5	10	8.3	17	14	34	28.1
Dance	28	59.6	2	4.2	4	8.5	13	27.7
Yoga	33	68.8	1	2.1	0	0	14	29.2
Traveling	30	25	13	10.8	36	30	41	34.2
Sing folk music	46	38	15	12.4	25	20.7	35	28.9
Chatting	18	14.9	23	19	54	44.6	26	21.5
Volunteer	20	16.7	22	18.3	41	34.2	37	30.8
Eating with friend	35	29.2	24	20	36	30	25	20.8
Playing musical instrument	15	30.6	8	16.3	10	20.4	16	32.7
Playing chess, cards	73	61.3	8	6.7	10	8.4	28	23.5
Reading book, newspaper	29	25	11	9.5	26	22.4	50	43.1
Watching television	1	2.1	2	4.2	6	12.5	39	81.3

Table 4 Characteristics of respondents agreeing and not agreeing to establish ACs

Characteristics	Agree to establish an AC
	Yes		No		Total		p-Value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Gender
Male	40	43.0	14	50.0	54	44.6	0.51
Female	53	57.0	14	50.0	67	55.4
Age group
60–70	46	49.5	13	46.4	59	48.8	0.67
71–80	29	31.2	12	42.9	41	33.9
81–90	16	17.2	3	10.7	19	15.7
>90	2	2.2	0	0.0	2	1.7
Educational attainment
Illiterate	6	6.5	1	3.6	7	5.8	0.81
Primary school	14	15.1	3	10.7	17	14.1
Secondary school	22	23.7	6	21.4	28	23.1
≥High school	51	54.8	18	26.3	69	57.0
Income status
Depend on children	23	24.7	8	28.6	31	25.6	0.35
Working	15	16.1	1	3.6	16	13.2
Savings	9	9.7	2	7.1	11	9.1
Monthly pension	46	49.5	17	60.7	63	52.1
Marital status
Widowed	20	21.5	14	50.0	34	28.1	0.02
Divorced	4	4.3	1	3.6	5	4.1
Live with spouse	59	63.4	13	46.4	72	59.5
Separated	10	10.8	0	0.0	10	8.3
ADL score
6	17	18.3	2	7.1	19	15.7	0.24
<6	76	81.7	26	92.9	102	84.3
IADL score
8	17	18.3	4	14.3	21	17.4	0.78
<8	76	81.7	24	85.7	100	82.6
Occupation of children
Farmer, unstable and unemployed	18	20.5	3	10.7	21	18.1	0.24
Work in government, personnel or staff	10	11.4	1	3.6	11	9.5
Business	11	12.5	2	7.1	13	11.2
Work organizations or freelancer	49	55.7	22	78.6	71	61.2
Join in elderly clubs
No	32	34.8	21	75.0	53	44.2	p<0.01
Yes	60	65.2	7	25.0	67	55.8

Abbreviations: AC, activity center; ADL, activities of daily living; IADL, instrumental activities of daily living.

Table 5 Factors associated with agreeing to establish AC and willingness-to-pay for AC

Characteristics	Agree to establish to AC		Willingness-to-pay for AC
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Take care of grandchildren (yes vs no)	0.36*	0.11; 1.19	0.19***	0.07; 0.53
Gender (male – ref)
Female			0.38**	0.15; 0.98
Education attainment (illiterate – ref)
Secondary school	0.32	0.07; 1.53
Income status (depend on children – ref)
Have savings			0.16*	0.02; 1.05
Children occupation (farmer, unstable and unemployed – ref)
Working in organizations or freelancer	0.22*	0.05; 1.01
Frequency of health check-ups (never – ref)
Feel pain or discomfort	10.28***	2.06; 51.35
Participate in elderly clubs (yes vs no)	9.95***	2.95; 33.64	6.67***	2.35; 18.88
Frequency of exercise (never – ref)
Few times per month	5.44	0.64; 46.19
IADL score			1.33	0.92; 1.91

Notes: *** P<0.01, ** P<0.05, * P<0.1.

Abbreviations: AC, activity center; IADL, instrumental activities of daily lliving.