Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of adult patients (age 17-75 years, n = 1074)
| Item | Subgroup |
Patients |
German population |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | % | Reference | ||
| Education
[41] |
|
|
|
|
[42] |
| -Low (grade 1) |
|
184 |
17.1% |
43% |
[43] |
| -Intermediate (grade 2) |
|
530 |
49.3% |
43% |
|
| -High (grade 3) |
|
360 |
33.5% |
14% |
|
| Wage earners |
|
39/1074 |
3.6% |
18% |
[42] |
| Unemployed during last 12 months |
Economically active patients |
37/618 |
6.0% |
10% |
[42] |
| Living alone |
|
208/1069 |
19.5% |
21% |
[42] |
| Net family income < 900 € per month |
|
160/871 |
18.4% |
16% |
[42] |
| Alcohol use daily (patients) vs almost daily (Germany) |
Male |
12/198 |
6.1% |
28% |
[44] |
| Female |
19/875 |
2.2% |
11% |
|
|
| Regular smoking |
Male |
26/199 |
13.1% |
37% |
[45] |
| Female |
92/873 |
10.5% |
28% |
|
|
| Sports activity ≥ 1 hour weekly |
Age 25-69 |
484/887 |
54.6% |
39% |
[46] |
| Body mass index < 18.5 (low) |
Male |
7/196 |
3.6% |
1% |
[42] |
| Female |
61/863 |
7.1% |
4% |
|
|
| Body mass index ≥ 25 (overweight) |
Male |
64/196 |
32.7% |
56% |
[42] |
| Female |
219/863 |
25.4% |
39% |
|
|
| Permanent work disability pension |
|
204/1072 |
19.0% |
3% |
[47] |
| Severe disability status |
|
116/1072 |
10.8% |
12% |
[48] |
| Sick leave days in the last 12 months: mean (standard deviation) | Economically active patients | 32.6 (67.3) | 17.0 | [49] | |