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Table 2 Observed frequency and percentage of citizens that have made suggestions or queries on diagnosis or treatment to a health professional or have taken health decisions as a result of health information from the Internet in 2007 and changes from 2005 to 2007

From: Informed citizen and empowered citizen in health: results from an European survey

 

2007

Change from 2005 to 2007

 

Suggestions or queries on diagnosis or treatment to health professional

Changing the use of medicine without consulting a health professional

Making, cancelling or changing an appointment with health professional

Suggestions or queries on diagnosis or treatment to health professional

Changing the use of medicine without consulting a health professional

Making, cancelling or changing an appointment with health professional

 

Frequency

Frequency

Frequency

   
 

Mean % (CI) a

Mean % (CI) a

Mean % (CI) a

Mean % (CI) a

Mean % (CI) a

Mean % (CI) a

 

251

30

82

   

Denmark

24.6(22.0-27.2)

2.9(1.9-4.0)

8.0(6.4-9.7)

4.7(1.1-8.3)

-0.1(-1.7-1.4)

2.0(-0.2-4.3)

 

268

34

64

   

Germany

26.8(24.2-29.4)

3.4(2.3-4.5)

6.4(4.9-7.9)

7.5(4.0-11.1)

1.1(-0.5-2.5)

1.3(-0.7-3.3)

 

152

9

30

   

Greece

15.2(13.0-17.4)

0.9(0.3-1.5)

3.0(2.0-4.0)

2.2(-0.8-5.1)

0.4(-0.4-1.1)

1.3(0.0-2.6)

 

276

62

99

   

Latvia

27.6(25.0-30.2)

6.2(4.7-7.7)

9.9(8.1-11.7)

7.6(4.2-11.1)

1.8(-0.2-3.7)

2.4(0.0-4.9)

 

166

30

83

   

Norway

16.6(14.3-18.8)

3.0(1.9-4.0)

8.3(6.6-10.0)

3.7(0.6-6.8)

0.4(-1.1-1.8)

1.4(-1.0-3.8)

 

281

35

111

   

Poland

28.1(25.5-30.7)

3.5(2.4-4.6)

11.1(9.2-13.0)

6.4(2.9-9.9)

1.1(-0.5-2.5)

4.0(1.5-6.4)

 

151

20

28

   

Portugal

15.1(13.0-17.2)

2.0(1.1-2.9)

2.8(1.8-3.8)

2.8(0.2-5.4)

0.9(-0.1-1.9)

0.1(-1.2-1.3)

 

1545

220

497

   

Total

22.0(21.1-22.9)

3.1(2.7-3.5)

7.1(6.5-7.7)

5.0(3.7-6.2)

0.7(0.2-1.3)

1.8(1.0-2.6)

  1. a95% confidence intervals (CI); differences are typed in italic when significantly different from 0 at the 5% level