Table 2.

Characteristics of patient-physician relationship

	Type of institutions
	Clinic (n = 362*)	Hospital (n = 325*)
Characteristic	n (%)	n (%)	p value
Frequency of the visits
> once a month	59 (17.3)	22 (7.1)	<0.001
once a month	215 (63.0)	160 (51.6)
once in 2 months	27 (7.9)	89 (28.7)
once in 3 months or more	40 (11.7)	39 (12.6)
Length of the relationship
less than a year	39 (11.3)	62 (19.7)	0.001
1-2 years	69 (19.9)	72 (22.9)
3-5 years	99 (28.6)	96 (30.5)
≥6 years	139 (40.2)	85 (27.0)

* The numbers of each item do not sum up to the total because there were some missing or invalid data for each question.