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Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Do general practice patients with and without appointment differ? Cross-sectional study

Variable (missing values)

Patients without appointment

(n = 251)

Patients with appointment

(n = 250)

p-values for group differences

Age in years (4)

44 (16)

50 (16)

< 0.001§

Female (3)

120 (48%)

139 (56%)

0.11*

Family status (4)

 - single

77 (31%)

56 (23%)

 

 - unmarried in partnership

38 (15%)

21 (8%)

 

 - married

129 (51%)

155 (63%)

0.005*

 - widowed

7 (3%)

14 (6%)

 

At least one child (3)

154 (61%)

178 (72%)

0.01*

Privately insured (5)

22 (9%)

21 (13%)

0.19*

High school graduation (10)

82 (33%)

63 (24%)

0.07*

Patient in the practice since … years (60)

8 (2, 15)

8 (4, 20)

0.13#

At least one chronic disease (3)

71 (29%)

113 (45%)

< 0.001

  1. Values are means (standard deviations) for age, median (1. and 3. quartile) for years in practice, and absolute frequencies (percentages) for other variables. § = p-values from Student‘s t-test; # = from Mann-Whitney-U-Test; * = from chi2-test