Table 2.
Health Care Profession | Primary Care, na | Mental Health, nb | All, nc | % of Sample |
Physician | 165 | 230 | 508 | 38 |
Nurse/nurse practitioner | 30 | 95 | 238 | 18 |
Health business/administration | 242 | 18 | ||
Psychologist | 113 | 10 | ||
Social worker | 61 | 5 | ||
Physician assistant | 52 | 4 | ||
Medical student | 47 | 3 | ||
Counselor | 18 | 1 | ||
Pharmacist | 14 | 1 | ||
Otherd | 45 | 3 | ||
Total | 1,338 | 100 |
Includes family medicine and internal medicine specialists.
Includes psychiatry.
Other specialties identified by more than 1 participant but less than 5% of participants were administration, allergy, cardiology, case management, critical care, dermatology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, education/teaching, geriatrics, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, home care, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, occupational health, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, pain management, pathology, pharmacotherapy, physical medicine, preventative medicine, public health, pulmonary medicine, quality management, research, surgery, and urology.
Other professions identified by participants included less than 1% each of chiropractor, clinical case manager, clinical nurse specialist, clinical researcher, health business, health information technology, laboratory technician, medical educator, nutritionist, optometrist, paramedic, pharmacist, physical therapist, podiatrist, rehabilitation specialist, senior executive, and senior manager.