The impact that family members’ health care experiences have on patients’ trust in physicians

Table 1 Participant characteristics

	Total
	N = 661
Age, in years	62.7	(10.1)
Women, N(%)	175	[26.5 %]
Education, N(%)
Junior high school	19	[2.9 %]
High school	209	[31.6 %]
Junior college	65	[9.8 %]
University	325	[49.2 %]
Graduate school	30	[4.5 %]
Not answered	13	[2.0 %]
Total household income, N(%)
< 1,000,000 yen	40	[6.1 %]
1,000,000 – < 3,000 000 yen	157	[23.8 %]
3,000,000 – < 5,000,000 yen	203	[30.7 %]
5,000,000 – < 10,000,000 yen	205	[31.0 %]
10,000,000 or more yen	56	[8.5 %]
Region, N(%)
Hokkaido	35	[5.3 %]
Tohoku	34	[5.1 %]
Chubu	98	[14.8 %]
Kanto	273	[41.3 %]
Kansai	132	[20.0 %]
Chugoku	29	[4.4 %]
Shikoku	19	[2.9 %]
Kyushu-Okinawa	41	[6.2 %]
Reported disease, N(%)
Cardiac disease, arrhythmia	37	[5.6 %]
Cardiac disease, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction	119	[18.0 %]
Cardiac disease, heart failure	15	[2.3 %]
Diabetes	191	[28.9 %]
Connective tissue disease	17	[2.6 %]
Cancer	255	[38.6 %]
Depression	127	[19.2 %]
The most troublesome disease, N(%)
Cardiac disease, arrhythmia	17	[2.6 %]
Cardiac disease, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction	89	[13.5 %]
Cardiac disease, heart failure	8	[1.2 %]
Diabetes	175	[26.5 %]
Connective tissue disease	13	[2.0 %]
Cancer	242	[36.6 %]
Depression	117	[17.7 %]
Duration with patients’ physician, N(%)
< 1 year	60	[9.1 %]
1 – <3 years	212	[32.1 %]
≥ 3 years	389	[58.9 %]

Continuous variables summarized as mean and standard deviation (in parentheses)
Categorical variables summarized as frequency and proportion (in square brackets)

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