Table 2.
Socio-demographic characteristics of the patients
| Internal Medicine | Gynaecology | |||||||
| GW (n = 856) |
TW (n = 698) |
GM (n = 273) |
TM (n = 282) |
p1) | GW (n = 195) |
TW (n = 125) |
p1) | |
| Age groups (%) | *** | ** | ||||||
| 15 to 29 years | 19.3 | 39.9 | 11.0 | 25.2 | 46.2 | 61.6 | ||
| 30 to 49 years | 21.8 | 31.9 | 31.9 | 44.7 | 39.5 | 32.8 | ||
| 50 to 64 years | 17.5 | 23.1 | 24.5 | 20.9 | 6.7 | 5.6 | ||
| ≥ 65 years | 41.2 | 4.8 | 32.5 | 9.2 | 6.2 | 0 | ||
| Health insurance (%) | *** | n.s. | ||||||
| Compulsory health insurance | 93.1 | 90.5 | 84.2 | 89.0 | 92.8 | 92.8 | ||
| Private health insurance | 2.1 | 1.5 | 5.2 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 3.2 | ||
| Coverage through welfare | 3.6 | 7.0 | 9.2 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 3.2 | ||
| Other | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 0.8 | ||
GW = German women, GM = German men, TW = Turkish women, TM = Turkish men; 1)Kruskal-Wallis test: ** p ≤ 0.01. *** p ≤ 0.001, n.s.: non-significant