General practitioners treating their own family members: a cross-sectional survey in Germany

BMC Primary Care

Table 6 Factors influencing the frequency of treating family members

a) Spouse/life partner (n = 306)
Independent variable	Beta	95% CI	p-value
Male gender	1.12	0.34–1.90	0.005*
Joint Household	1.52	0.21–2.83	0.023*
Practice experience	0.04	−0.03 – 0.12	0.231
Age	0.03	−0.05 – 0.12	0.468
Urban practice location	−0.21	− 0.93 – 0.51	0.566
b) Own children (n = 280)
Independent variable	Beta	95% CI	p-value
Joint household with ≥1 child	1.09	0.18–2.00	0.019*
Urban practice location	−0.57	−1.29 – 0.16	0.125
Practice experience	0.06	−0.01 – 0.13	0.089
Male gender	−0.32	− 1.10 – 0.45	0.421
Age	−0.03	−0.12 – 0.06	0.484
c) Own parents (n = 235)
Independent variable	Beta	95% CI	p-value
Practice experience	0.12	0.01–0.23	0.028*
Male gender	0.99	−0.17 – 2.15	0.094
Urban practice location	−0.84	−1.95 – 0.26	0.132
Age	−0.04	−0.17 – 0.08	0.506
Joint household with ≥1 parent	0.33	−1.34 – 2.00	0.698
d) Spouse’s parents (n = 190)
Independent variable	Beta	95% CI	p-value
Male gender	2.36	1.20–3.53	< 0.001*
Age	0.09	−0.04 – 0.22	0.154
Practice experience	−0.06	−0.18 – 0.05	0.271
Urban practice location	−0.50	−1.59 – 0.60	0.371
Joint household with ≥1 spouse parent	1.50	−2.28 – 5.28	0.435

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