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Table 2 Dimension 1: Crude and adjusted associations between patient characteristics and patients' evaluation of aspects of the doctor-patient relationship.

From: Patient characteristics associated with differences in patients' evaluation of their general practitioner

  

100% positive assessments 1

0–49% positive assessments 2

  

Prev.(%)

PR

Adj. PR

95% CI

Prev.(%)

PR

Adj. PR

95% CI

Gender

(N = 25533)

Female

63.8

1

1

 

14.9

1

1

 
 

Male

65.1

1.02

0.98

0.96 – 1.00

13.0

0.87

0.93

0.86 – 1.00

Age (years)

(N = 25533)

18–24

52.3

1

1

 

16.4

1

1

 
 

25–29

54.3

1.04

1.03

0.96 – 1.10

16.6

1.03

1.03

0.87 – 1.22

 

30–34

57.6

1.10

1.10

1.04 – 1.18

16.7

1.00

0.99

0.86 – 1.15

 

35–39

58.8

1.12

1.15

1.08 – 1.22

17.0

1.01

0.96

0.82 – 1.13

 

40–44

60.1

1.15

1.20

1.13 – 1.29

17.3

1.00

0.93

0.80 – 1.09

 

45–49

61.2

1.17

1.23

1.15 – 1.32

16.1

0.90

0.83

0.70 – 0.98

 

50–54

65.2

1.25

1.33

1.25 – 1.42

14.2

0.88

0.71

0.60 – 0.85

 

55–59

67.6

1.29

1.39

1.30 – 1.48

13.0

0.74

0.64

0.54 – 0.77

 

60–64

70.2

1.34

1.43

1.35 – 1.53

11.8

0.67

0.58

0.48 – 0.70

 

65–69

76.8

1.47

1.57

1.47 – 1.67

9.4

0.58

0.47

0.38 – 0.58

 

70–74

76.7

1.46

1.57

1.47 – 1.67

10.5

0.53

0.52

0.43 – 0.63

 

75–79

73.6

1.41

1.52

1.43 – 1.63

11.2

0.51

0.55

0.44 – 0.67

 

80+

72.8

1.39

1.50

1.40 – 1.61

10.4

0.57

0.49

0.39 – 0.62

Further education (years)

(N = 24364)

None

66.3

13

13

 

13.3

1

1

 
 

Less than 2

64.5

0.94

1.01

0.97 – 1.05

14.8

1.12

1.05

0.92 – 1.19

 

2–4

63.8

0.86

0.99

0.96 – 1.02

14.6

1.10

1.07

0.98 – 1.17

 

5 or more

62.2

0.73

0.96

0.93 – 1.00

14.7

1.10

1.11

0.99 – 1.25

 

Undergoing education or other

        
  

66.0

0.91

1.06

1.01 – 1.10

12.4

0.94

0.91

0.76 – 1.08

Frequency of attendance (times per year)

(N = 25533)

0–1

60.7

1

1

 

16.4

1

1

 
 

2–3

61.9

1.02

1.04

1.00 – 1.07

15.7

0.95

0.91

0.82 – 1.01

 

4–5

64.6

1.06

1.08

1.04 – 1.11

14.1

0.86

0.79

0.71 – 0.88

 

6–7

65.1

1.07

1.10

1.05 – 1.14

14.1

0.86

0.74

0.66 – 0.84

 

8–9

67.5

1.11

1.14

1.09 – 1.19

13.0

0.79

0.67

0.58 – 0.77

 

10+

68.2

1.12

1.18

1.14 – 1.23

11.4

0.69

0.53

0.46 – 0.61

Duration of listing (years)

(N = 16985)

Less than 1

63.2

1

1

 

16.5

1

1

 
 

1–2

64.6

1.02

1.00

0.95 – 1.05

13.6

0.82

0.89

0.75 – 1.05

 

3–7

64.6

1.02

0.98

0.94 – 1.02

13.7

0.83

0.92

0.80 – 1.07

 

8–12

65.5

1.04

0.97

0.92 – 1.02

13.4

0.81

0.93

0.80 – 1.08

 

13+

68.3

1.08

1.00

0.95 – 1.05

11.9

0.72

0.85

0.73 – 0.99

Self-rated health

(N = 25533)

Excellent

67.6

1

1

 

12.0

1

1

 
 

Very good

64.5

0.95

0.92

0.89 – 0.94

12.5

1.04

1.14

1.01 – 1.29

 

Good

65.0

0.96

0.83

0.81 – 0.86

14.6

1.22

1.66

1.46 – 1.87

 

Fair

61.4

0.91

0.74

0.72 – 0.77

17.2

1.44

2.29

2.01 – 2.62

 

Poor

58.2

0.86

0.69

0.65 – 0.74

18.6

1.56

2.66

2.21 – 3.20

Chronic condition

(N = 25170)

No

62.3

1

13

 

14.8

1

1

 
 

Yes-KRTC

70.6

1.13

1.06

1.03 – 1.09

12.2

0.83

0.89

0.81 – 0.99

 

Yes-other or multiple

63.9

1.03

1.04

1.01 – 1.06

14.7

0.99

0.89

0.82 – 0.96

Chronic condition

(N = 17192)

None

62.3

1

13

 

14.8

1

1

 
 

K – Cardiovascular

72.1

1.16

1.05

1.01 – 1.09

10.7

0.73

0.85

0.73 – 1.00

 

R – Respiratory

66.5

1.07

1.06

1.01 – 1.11

14.9

1.01

0.99

0.85 – 1.15

 

T – Endocrine

69.8

1.12

1.04

1.00 – 1.09

13.7

0.93

1.01

0.85 – 1.20

 

C – Cancer

77.7

1.25

1.20

1.12 – 1.28

6.6

0.44

0.46

0.29 – 0.73

  1. Prevalence ratio (PR) for 100% positive assessments and for 0–49% positive assessments associated with different patient characteristics. Crude PRs are adjusted for clustering of patients. Adjusted PRs are adjusted for patients' gender, age, frequency of attending a GP, self-rated health and clustering of frequency patients. Numbers in italics are used to indicate statistical significance.
  2. 1 Patients who marked 100% of the answered questions in one of the two most positive answering categories.
  3. 2 Patients who marked less than 50% (0–49%) of the answered questions in one of the two most positive answering categories.
  4. 3 Poisson regression with robust variance
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