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. 2024 Mar 7;19(3):e0299907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299907

Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics and health care utilization.

n (%)
Gender
 Female 210 (51.7)
 Male 195 (48.0)
 Diverse 1 (0.2)
Age groups
 18 to 24 years 33 (8.1)
 25 to 44 years 121 (29.8)
 45 to 64 years 127 (31.3)
 65 years or older 125 (30.8)
Insurance status
 Statutory health insurance 341 (84.0)
 Private health insurance 65 (16.0)
Professional/Vocational education
 No professional training (yet) 16 (3.9)
 Professional training 213 (52.5)
 (technical) university degree 177 (43.6)
Employment status
 Not employed 10 (2.5)
 In professional training / student 23 (5.7)
 Employed 232 (57.1)
 Self-employed 18 (4.4)
 Retired 123 (30.3)
Residence
 Under 5,000 inhabitants 49 (12.1)
 5,000 to 20,000 inhabitants 79 (19.5)
 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants 80 (19.7)
 More than 100,000 inhabitants 198 (48.8)
Who decides about patients’ treatment? (Range: 0 = “Physician always decides”, 100 = “Patient always decides”; M = 49.56, SD = 17.97)
 Physician always decides (0–33 points) 51 (12.6)
 Physician and patient decide together (34–66 points) 312 (76.8)
 Patient always decides (67–100 points) 43 (10.6)
Number of physicians visited per patient in the last three months (Median = 2.0, IQR = [1.0; 3.0])
 None 36 (8.9)
 One or two 191 (47.0)
 Three or more 179 (44.1)