Table 1 Demographic data of the primary care physician respondents

Number of participants

235

Gender ¹

103 (44%)

131 (56%)

234 (99.6%)

Age ²

 • Age < 35 year

14 (14%)

13 (10%)

27 (11%)

 • Age 35–49 year

38 (37%)

68 (52%)

107 (46%)

 • Age > 49 year

50 (50%)

50 (38%)

100 (43%)

Speciality ³

232 (99%)

 • Specialist in general practice

74 (73%)

95 (73%)

169 (73%)

 • Primary care physician not specialist in general practice

27 (27%)

35 (27%)

62 (27%)

Speciality experience ⁴

 • Worked as specialist in general practice 0–5 year

20 (27%)

29 (30%)

49 (29%)

 • Worked as specialist in general practice 6–10 year

9 (12%)

16 (17%)

25 (15%)

 • Worked as specialist in general practice > 10 year

44 (60%)

50 (53%)

94 (56%)

Full-time/part-time ⁵

 • Working full-time

53 (52%)

39 (30%)

92 (39%)

 • Working part-time

49 (48%)

91 (70%)

141 (61%)

Public/private clinic ⁶

 • Public primary health care centre

67 (66%)

85 (65%)

153 (66%)

 • Private primary health care centre

34 (34%)

45 (35%)

79 (34%)