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

BMC Primary Care

Table 7 Most likely profiles of citizens making suggestions or queries to health professionals or taking vital decisions

	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
Gender
Age	26-35
Education
Kids at home (< 18)
Place of living
Work situation
Disable or with diagnosis
Relative disable or with diagnosis
Subjective health	poor or very poor
At least one consultation in the last year	yes		yes
Interact with a HP never meet face-to-face	infrequent	infrequent
Participate in forums	established	established	established
Order medicines	established		established
Read about health or illness	established

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