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Table 1 Variables used in analyses

From: Exploring physiotherapists’ personality traits that may influence treatment outcome in patients with chronic diseases: a cohort study

Patient level

  

Therapist level

  

Gender

Female

Categorical

Gender

Female

Categorical

(Female = 0)a

Male

(Female = 0)a

Male

Age

Years

Continuous

Age

31–45 years

Categorical

   

(31–45 years = 0)a

46–59 years

 
    

60–75 years

 

Reoccurrence

No

Categorical

Life event

No

Categorical

(No = 0)a

Yes

 

(No = 0)a

Yes

 

Education

Low

Categorical

Extraversion

Scale 1–5

Continuous

(Low = 0)a

Middle

 

Openness to experiences

Scale 1–5

 
 

High

 

Neuroticism

Scale 1–5

 
 

Other

 

Agreeableness

Scale 1–5

 
   

Conscientiousness

Scale 1–5

 

Course of complaints

-10 − 10

Continuous

   
  1. aReference value for dummies of ordinal or categorical variables
  2. Low Primary School, Medium Secondary- or higher education, High University, Other not specified, yrs. Years