Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants versus the Belgian physician population^a

	Survey population		Belgian physician population
Characteristic	Psychiatrists (n = 105)	GPs (n = 264)	Psychiatrists (n = 1611)	GPs (n = 14 888)
Female (%)	36	22	43	36
Practice: private/institutional/both (%)	17/16/67	96/4/0	-	-
Mean age (years)	46	50	50	50
Mean duration of practice (years)	17	24	-	-
Number of patients with depression treated each month	71	33	-	-

GP, general practitioner.

^aBased on physicians present in the Belgian Central Medical Database.