Association between doctor-patient familiarity and patient-centred care during general practitioner's consultations: a direct observational study in Chinese primary care practice

Table 3 Time spent in overall patient-centred care and each code during GP's consultations of the two groups

Codes	Interval number for each code in one visit, Mean ± SE				Percentage for each code in one visit (%), Mean ± SE				Time spent in each code in one visit (second), Mean ± SE
Codes	Familiar (I)	Unfamiliar (II)	Diff (I-II)	p^*	Familiar (I)	Unfamiliar (II)	Diff (I-II)	P^*	Familiar (I)	Unfamiliar (II)	Diff (I-II)	p^*
Patient centred care	6.68 ± 0.66	7.03 ± 0.81	-0.346	0.759	33.0 ± 2.60	29.4 ± 3.20	3.624	0.418	43.4 ± 3.52	45.0 ± 4.33	-1.562	0.797
Family information	0.02 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.01	0.012	0.538	0.10 ± 0.05	0.02 ± 0.06	0.079	0.358	0.19 ± 0.12	0.11 ± 0.15	0.079	0.707
Treatment effect	1.37 ± 0.30	1.30 ± 0.37	0.066	0.665	2.73 ± 0.35	2.18 ± 0.43	0.549	0.360	3.37 ± 0.49	2.68 ± 0.61	0.688	0.416
Nutrition advice	0.44 ± 0.08	0.24 ± 0.10	0.197	0.168	1.77 ± 0.35	1.06 ± 0.43	0.709	0.242	3.81 ± 0.79	1.83 ± 0.97	1.981	0.145
Exercise advice	0.18 ± 0.45	0.09 ± 0.06	0.095	0.227	0.61 ± 0.19	0.52 ± 0.23	0.093	0.771	1.73 ± 0.46	0.46 ± 0.57	1.270	0.112
Health knowledge	0.88 ± 0.13	1.36 ± 0.16	-0.484	0.026*	4.30 ± 0.57	6.21 ± 0.71	-1.905	0.055	4.40 ± 0.77	7.26 ± 0.94	-2.862	0.030*
Patient question	1.46 ± 0.18	2.00 ± 0.23	-0.546	0.084	7.51 ± 0.80	8.09 ± 0.99	-0.577	0.677	8.34 ± 1.16	13.0 ± 1.42	-4.689	0.019*
Chatting	2.26 ± 0.27	1.95 ± 0.33	0.306	0.506	11.9 ± 1.05	7.34 ± 1.29	4.567	0.012*	19.4 ± 2.67	17.3 ± 3.29	2.050	0.656
Counselling	0.08 ± 0.04	0.07 ± 0.05	0.009	0.898	0.21 ± 0.10	0.23 ± 0.13	-0.023	0.897	0.84 ± 0.41	0.51 ± 0.50	0.323	0.646

Note: SE standard error. Diff absolute difference between familiar group and unfamiliar group
^* Multivariate analyses of covariance controlling for patient sex, age, marital status, education, monthly household income, employment status, household status, health insurance, health status, reason for visit, number of visits to the CHC in the last year, whether have a family doctor or not, with or without chronic diseases

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