Table 2.

Physicians’ profiles and practices

	Primary care physicians
	(N = 45)
Medical specialties: General practitioner / Paediatric	36 / 9
Sex: Male / Female	23 / 22
Age, mean (min-max)	50 (32–66)
Number of years since installation, mean (min-max)	18 (1–35)
Proportion of children of their activity:
Children under 16-years old (%), mean (min-max)	43 (10-100%)
Working area, n (%)
Rural practice	14 (31%)
Urban practice	23 (51%)
Mixed practice	8 (18%)
Practicing complementary and alternative medicine n (%)	3(7%)
Group practice n (%)	24 (53%)
Teaching activity n (%)	14 (31%)