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. 2010 Oct 6;11:73. doi: 10.1186/1471-2296-11-73

Table 3.

Multivariate linear regression models: association between background variables and the five dependent variables

Telephone contact (n = 130) Nursing services -at the casualty clinic(n = 139) Doctor services -at the casualty clinic (n = 164) Organization-at the casualty clinic(n = 171) Global satisfaction(n = 197)

B
Signifi-cance
B
Signifi-cance
B
Signifi-cance
B
Signifi-cance
B
Signifi-cance
Female (reference: male)
1.97
0.59
3.00
0.41
3.75
0.29
-1.78
0.72
-0.14
0.34
Age
0.08
0.51
0.15
0.23
0.07
0.57
0.36
0.02
0.01
0.19
Health status
-2.30
0.10
-1.18
0.45
-1.44
0.35
-4.42
0.04
-0.13
0.03
Education (reference: primary school)










Secondary school
1.21
0.80
1.98
0.65
-2.35
0.58
2.39
0.68
0.03
0.86
University college/university (1-4 years)
5.51
0.20
3.86
0.38
0.93
0.83
4.48
0.45
0.34
0.07
University college/university (4 years or more)
4.11
0.46
6.85
0.20
-5.78
0.28
-0.15
0.98
0.10
0.65
Marital status (reference: married)










Cohabitant
-1.88
0.63
1.61
0.70
-0.82
0.84
1.36
0.80
-0.08
0.62
Living alone
2.47
0.53
4.93
0.24
-0.19
0.96
-2.40
0.67
-0.04
0.81
Number of times in contact with the out-of-hours service two last years (reference: 1 time)










2 times
2.26
0.60
3.28
0.45
0.20
0.96
3.15
0.58
0.18
0.29
3-5 times
3.06
0.46
1.72
0.69
-3.90
0.34
-5.31
0.34
0.07
0.69
6-10 times
0.16
0.98
4.67
0.45
-2.41
0.69
6.36
0.44
0.04
0.87
More than 10 times
5.12
0.45
9.49
0.17
4.38
0.55
2.30
0.82
0.43
0.18
Extent of urgency (reference: very serious)










Serious
-5.68
0.17
-4.38
0.32
-4.21
0.35
-9.24
0.14
-0.13
0.49
Less serious
-4.41
0.34
-8.42
0.10
-2.28
0.65
-11.75
0.09
-0.27
0.20
Uncertain about seriousness
-0.08
0.99
0.20
0.97
-1.48
0.79
-0.05
1.00
0.10
0.66
Respondent group (reference: patients)










Cares of children under the age of 16
-1.11
0.77
-7.11
0.07
-2.40
0.55
-1.66
0.76
-0.17
0.32
Cares of patients aged 16 or older -5.13 0.36 -5.39 0.43 -5.21 0.46 -11.05 0.27 -0.23 0.37

Explained variance (R2 ): Telephone contact (0.077), Nursing services(0.086), Doctor services (0.056), Organization (0.114) and Global satisfaction (0.084).