Table 1.
Characteristics of primary care physicians participating in the TBD-Prev survey, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria, Germany, 24 May–30 September 2022.
| State | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Overall N = 2321 |
Baden-Wuerttemberg n = 1222 |
Bavaria n = 1067 |
Not Coded n = 32 |
| Online or paper questionnaire | ||||
| Online | 797 (34%) | 431 (35%) | 359 (34%) | 7 (22%) |
| Paper | 1524 (66%) | 791 (65%) | 708 (66%) | 25 (78%) |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 1009 (44%) | 510 (42%) | 489 (46%) | 10 (50%) |
| Male | 1278 (56%) | 700 (58%) | 568 (53%) | 10 (50%) |
| Not specified | 15 (0.7%) | 7 (0.6%) | 8 (0.8%) | 0 (0%) |
| Age in years | ||||
| ≤30 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| 31–40 | 169 (7.4%) | 81 (6.7%) | 87 (8.2%) | 1 (5.3%) |
| 41–50 | 504 (22%) | 260 (21%) | 238 (22%) | 6 (32%) |
| 51–60 | 864 (38%) | 477 (39%) | 382 (36%) | 5 (26%) |
| >60 | 753 (33%) | 393 (32%) | 353 (33%) | 7 (37%) |
| Type of practice | ||||
| Individual practice | 1165 (51%) | 606 (50%) | 548 (53%) | 11 (58%) |
| Joint or group practice | 1075 (47%) | 587 (49%) | 480 (46%) | 8 (42%) |
| Medical care center | 11 (0.5%) | 5 (0.4%) | 6 (0.6%) | 0 (0%) |
| Other | 15 (0.7%) | 7 (0.6%) | 8 (0.8%) | 0 (0%) |
| Urban–rural level of practice (NUTS level 3) | ||||
| Predominantly rural | 494 (22%) | 127 (10%) | 367 (34%) | Missing |
| Intermediate | 1030 (45%) | 588 (48%) | 442 (41%) | Missing |
| Predominantly urban | 760 (33%) | 503 (41%) | 257 (24%) | Missing |
| Medical speciality | ||||
| General medicine/practitioner | 1533 (66%) | 746 (61%) | 774 (73%) | 13 (65%) |
| Internal medicine (primary care, without further specialisation) | 339 (15%) | 297 (24%) | 38 (3.6%) | 4 (20%) |
| Pediatrics | 334 (14%) | 127 (10%) | 206 (19%) | 1 (5.0%) |
| Other | 100 (4.3%) | 49 (4.0%) | 49 (4.6%) | 2 (10%) |
| Offers travel medicine advice | 1863 (81%) | 963 (80%) | 884 (83%) | 16 (80%) |
| Regularly gets vaccinated against influenza | 1949 (85%) | 1035 (85%) | 890 (84%) | 24 (80%) |
| Vaccinated against TBE | 1937 (84%) | 1026 (85%) | 888 (84%) | 23 (77%) |
Column percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Abbreviations: NUTS, nomenclature of territorial units for statistics; TBE, tick-borne encephalitis. There were missing data for gender (n = 19), age (n = 31), type of practice (n = 55), urban–rural level (n = 37), medical speciality (n = 15), travel medicine advice (n = 28), influenza vaccination (n = 18) and TBE vaccination (n = 21).