Lifestyle counseling in hypertension-related visits – analysis of video-taped general practice visits

BMC Primary Care

Table 1 Characteristics of the participants and general practitioners

	Percentage
Patients (n = 212)
Age
18–44 years	10
45–64 years	33
65–74 years	32
≥ 75 years	24
Gender
Female	67
Male	33
Nationality
Dutch	78
Other	13
Unknown	9
Education
Non/elementary school	27
High school or vocational education	46
College or university	13
Unknown	14
Blood pressure status
Established hypertension	78
Early phase†	9
Other‡	13
GPs (n = 108)
Age
<35 years	8
35–44 years	32
45–54 years	52
>55 years	7
Gender
Female	23
Male	77
Urbanization practice location
Moderately/strongly	59
Weakly/not	41
Employment
≥ 0.8 full-time equivalents	72
< 0.8 full-time equivalents	28
Practice
Single	33
Duo	29
Group	38

† Elevated blood pressure in one or more visits but diagnosis hypertension not (yet) established.
‡ E.g. general medical check-up, diabetes.

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