Table 4.
Six most common types of management applied by doctor in 233 cases when patients’ social problems influenced management, and correlation coefficients between these types of management
| Type of management | No (%) of patients | Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advice | Sick leave | Psychotropic drug | New appointment | Change of behaviour | ||
| Extra time | 118 (51) | 0.30*** | −0.16* | 0.21** | 0.02 | 0.18** |
| Advice | 98 (42) | — | −0.12 | 0.08 | −0.00 | 0.13 |
| Sick leave | 64 (27) | — | — | −0.28*** | −0.08 | −0.02 |
| Psychotropic drug | 46 (20) | — | — | — | 0.04 | 0.03 |
| New appointment | 24 (10) | — | — | — | — | 0.18 |
| Change of behaviour | 17 (7) | — | — | — | — | — |
*
P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001.