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

Table 5 Associations between dissatisfaction with medical care provided to patients’ families with Interpersonal Physician Trust

Interpersonal Trust in a Physician score, points	Mean difference	(95 %CI)	p-value
Unadjusted^a
Dissatisfaction with medical care provided to a patient’s family	-4.38	(-7.21 to -1.56)	0.002
Multivariable-adjusted^b
Dissatisfaction with medical care provided to a patient’s family	-3.19	(-6.02 to -0.36)	0.027
Age, per 10 yr	1.13	(-0.35 to 2.60)	0.135
Sex, female	0.67	(-2.87 to 4.22)	0.709
Duration with patients’ physician
< 1 yr	-2.68	(-7.5 to 2.12)	0.274
1 – < 3 yr	-2.61	(-5.6 to 0.40)	0.089
3 or over yr	Ref
Education
Junior high school	Ref
High school	-4.19	(-12.3 to 3.96)	0.314
Junior college	2.31	(-6.7 to 11.4)	0.616
University	-2.85	(-10.9 to 5.25)	0.491
Graduate school	-7.99	(-18.1 to 2.12)	0.121
Not answered	-2.02	(-14.3 to 10.3)	0.748
Total household income
< 1,000,000 yen	-6.99	(-14.2 to 0.21)	0.057
1,000,000 – < 3,000,000 yen	-1.43	(-6.9 to 4.04)	0.608
3,000,000 – < 5,000,000 yen	-2.61	(-7.9 to 2.64)	0.330
5,000,000 – < 10,000,000 yen	-2.67	(-7.8 to 2.47)	0.309
10,000,000 or over yen	Ref

Analysis of 661 patients in 46 prefectures
^aLinear mixed effect models with consideration for prefectural level correlation
^bLinear mixed effect model adjusted for age, sex, duration with patients’ physician, comorbidities, education, and total household income with consideration for prefectural-level correlation

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