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Table 1 The demographic information of the study sample

From: Comparison of the Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) with two single-item measures among Finnish Health care centre patients

 

All participants, n = 483

Comparison by participation in the telephone interview (test-retest analyses)

Patients included in the test-retest analyses, n = 175a

Patients who did not participate in the telephone interview, n = 254

Frequency

Percentage

Frequency

Percentage

Frequency

Percentage

Ageb

 Range

18–97

 

19–88

 

18–97

 

 Mean (SD)

58.5 (19.1)

 

62.2 (17.2)

 

56.2 (20.4)

 

 Data missing/NA

17

3.5

7

4.0

9

3.5

Mean PEI score immediately after the appointment

 Mean (SD)

3.78 (3.83)

 

4.13 (3.95)

 

3.81 (3.86)

 

Sex

 Female

313

64.8

108

61.7

173

68.1

 Male

153

32.8

60

34.3

73

28.7

 Other

1

0.2

0

0

1

0.4

 Data missing/NA

16

3.3

7

4.0

7

2.8

Language

 Finnish

455

94.2

164

93.7

240

94.5

 Other

5

1.1

2

1.1

2

0.8

 Data missing/NA

23

4.8

9

5.1

12

4.7

Co-habitation

 Single, divorced, widowed

199

41.2

72

41.1

105

41.3

 Married, registered partnership, or common-law marriage

267

55.3

96

54.9

140

55.2

 Data missing/NA

17

3.5

7

4.0

9

3.5

Educationb

 No qualifications obtained or primary education (lower-level)

119

24.9

41

23.4

65

25.6

 Upper secondary-level education (middle-level)

245

50.7

80

45.7

141

55.5

 Post-secondary or higher (higher-level)

98

20.3

47

26.9

37

14.6

 Data missing/NA

21

4.3

7

4.0

11

4.3

Working statusb

 Working

92

19.0

21

12.0

61

24.0

 Retired

275

56.9

112

64.0

135

53.1

 Other (unemployed, student, other)

99

20.5

34

19.4

51

20.1

 Data missing/NA

17

3.5

8

4.6

7

2.8

State of health (self-assessment)

 Excellent

32

6.6

10

5.7

21

8.3

 Good

165

34.2

66

37.5

85

33.5

 Fair

171

35.4

60

34.3

85

33.5

 Poor

18

3.7

6

3.4

7

2.8

 Data missing/NA

97

20.1

33

18.8

56

22.0

Number of chronic illnessesb

 No chronic illness

78

16.1

22

12.6

48

18.9

 1

116

24.0

38

21.7

69

27.2

 2–3

191

39.5

80

45.7

87

34.3

  > 3

61

12.6

26

14.9

26

11.3

 Data missing/NA

37

7.7

9

5.1

24

9.4

Number of reasons for the consultation b

 1

299

61.9

98

56.0

170

66.9

  > 1

170

35.2

71

40.6

77

30.3

 Data missing/NA

14

2.9

6

3.4

7

2.8

Reason for the consultation

 Acute

158

32.7

52

29.7

83

32.7

 Non-acute

311

64.4

117

66.9

164

64.6

 Data missing/NA

14

2.9

6

3.4

7

2.8

Locationb

 Semi-rural

147

30.4

58

33.1

63

24.8

 Urban

196

40.6

78

44.6

108

42.5

 Rural

140

29.0

39

22.3

83

32.7

  1. bPatients who had not visited a doctor in the interim period and had completed the PEI at the baseline and retest; 26 of these had not completed Q1
  2. bStatistically significant difference between groups in the Chi-square test (bolded), missing values excluded from the analyses