Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the included participants
From: Community perspective on family medicine and family physician in Saudi Arabia 2020
Variables | Chronic Illness | P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Total | ||||||
n | % | n | % | N | % | |||
Age | 15–24 | 341 | 26.2 | 2069 | 36.5 | 2410 | 34.6 | < 0.001b |
25–35 | 354 | 27.2 | 2234 | 39.4 | 2588 | 37.1 | ||
36–50 | 370 | 28.4 | 1154 | 20.3 | 1524 | 21.9 | ||
> 50 | 238 | 18.3 | 214 | 3.8 | 452 | 6.5 | ||
Gender | Male | 655 | 50.3 | 2710 | 47.8 | 3365 | 48.3 | 0.106 |
Female | 648 | 49.7 | 2961 | 52.2 | 3609 | 51.7 | ||
Educational level | No School | 149 | 11.5 | 418 | 7.4 | 567 | 8.2 | < 0.001 b |
Diploma | 204 | 15.7 | 760 | 13.4 | 964 | 13.9 | ||
Student | 107 | 8.2 | 437 | 7.7 | 544 | 7.8 | ||
Bachelor | 676 | 52.1 | 3695 | 65.3 | 4371 | 62.8 | ||
Master | 109 | 8.4 | 256 | 4.5 | 365 | 5.2 | ||
Doctorate | 53 | 4.1 | 93 | 1.6 | 146 | 2.1 | ||
Marital status | Single | 489 | 37.5 | 2973 | 52.4 | 3462 | 49.6 | < 0.001 b |
Married | 727 | 55.8 | 2515 | 44.3 | 3242 | 46.5 | ||
Widowed | 36 | 2.8 | 51 | 0.9 | 87 | 1.2 | ||
Divorced | 51 | 3.9 | 132 | 2.3 | 183 | 2.6 | ||
Number of children | No children | 534 | 41.0 | 3312 | 58.4 | 3846 | 55.1 | < 0.001 b |
One | 111 | 8.5 | 463 | 8.2 | 574 | 8.2 | ||
2–3 | 190 | 14.6 | 901 | 15.9 | 1091 | 15.6 | ||
> 3 | 468 | 35.9 | 995 | 17.5 | 1463 | 21.0 | ||
Home | My own | 881 | 67.6 | 3692 | 65.1 | 4573 | 65.6 | 0.086 |
Rental | 422 | 32.4 | 1979 | 34.9 | 2401 | 34.4 | ||
Income/ month | < 5000 SR | 396 | 30.4 | 2254 | 39.7 | 2650 | 38.0 | < 0.001 b |
5000–10,000 SR | 315 | 24.2 | 1343 | 23.7 | 1658 | 23.8 | ||
10,000–15,000 SR | 293 | 22.5 | 1139 | 20.1 | 1432 | 20.5 | ||
15,000–20,000 SR | 173 | 13.3 | 550 | 9.7 | 723 | 10.4 | ||
> 20,000 SR | 126 | 9.7 | 385 | 6.8 | 511 | 7.3 | ||
Job | Doctor | 98 | 7.5 | 528 | 9.3 | 626 | 9.0 | < 0.001 b |
Engineer | 71 | 5.4 | 204 | 3.6 | 275 | 3.9 | ||
Teacher | 231 | 17.7 | 689 | 12.1 | 920 | 13.2 | ||
Student | 306 | 23.5 | 1840 | 32.4 | 2146 | 30.8 | ||
Nurse | 48 | 3.7 | 233 | 4.1 | 281 | 4.0 | ||
Other | 549 | 42.1 | 2177 | 38.4 | 2726 | 39.1 | ||
Are you a health care provider? | No | 945 | 72.5 | 3554 | 62.7 | 4499 | 64.5 | < 0.001 b |
Yes | 358 | 27.5 | 2117 | 37.3 | 2475 | 35.5 | ||
Nationality | Saudi | 1253 | 96.2 | 5386 | 95.0 | 6639 | 95.3 | 0.064 |
Non-Saudi | 49 | 3.8 | 282 | 5.0 | 331 | 4.7 | ||
Region | Northern | 134 | 10.3 | 692 | 12.2 | 826 | 11.8 | 0.003a |
Southern | 230 | 17.7 | 1194 | 21.1 | 1424 | 20.4 | ||
Eastern | 161 | 12.4 | 721 | 12.7 | 882 | 12.6 | ||
Western | 278 | 21.3 | 1143 | 20.2 | 1421 | 20.4 | ||
Central | 500 | 38.4 | 1921 | 33.9 | 2421 | 34.7 | ||