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. 2013 Aug 28;15(8):e187. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2702

Table 2.

Overview of survey results.

Variable Awareness
(n=483, 32.09%)
Searching
(n=381, 25.32%)
Rating
(n=166, 11.03%)
Positive impact
(n=327, 21.73%)
Negative impact
(n=258, 17.14%)

Mean (SD)/
n (%)
P a Mean (SD)/
n (%)
P a Mean (SD)/
n (%)
P a Mean (SD)/
n (%)
P a Mean (SD)/
n (%)
P a
Age (years), mean (SD) 44.17 (14.06) .44 44.61 (13.81) .18 45.15 (14.37) .19 41.57 (13.90) .003 41.80 (13.86) .02
Age range (years), n (%)










≤20 15.87 .08 4.76 .007 1.59 .14 22.22 .002 12.70 <.001

21-30 33.50
27.18
11.65
33.01
29.61

31-40 37.01
29.18
12.81
24.56
16.73

41-50 30.51
24.77
9.37
20.24
16.31

51-60 32.03
24.51
11.44
19.28
14.71

61-70 32.78
28.89
14.44
13.89
12.22

>70 35.29
26.47
11.76
11.76
8.82
Gender, n (%)










Female 35.7 <.001 27.8 .02 10.5 .40 24.2 .01 19.1 .02

Male 27.5
22.3
11.9
18.8
14.7
Marital status, n (%)










Married 31.4 .01 25.4 <.001 11.4 .04 20.2 .37 15.3 .25

Single 30.7
22.0
8.8
22.5
18.6

Divorced 36.2
33.6
15.4
26.2
20.1

Widowed 55.6
52.8
19.4
25.0
22.2
Education, n (%)










High School 35.1 .27 28.0 .17 11.3 .29 23.9 .31 20.9 <.001

Technical university entrance qualification 28.1
22.4
12.2
20.4
15.8

Intermediate secondary school 32.5
27.8
11.3
22.3
17.1

Polytechnic secondary school 31.0
21.1
7.0
22.5
8.5

Secondary general school 29.7
19.6
12.8
16.2
9.5

Without school qualification 50.0
50.0
50.0
50.0
0.0

Others 15.0
15.0
0.0
10.0
0.0
Employment, n (%)










Self-employed 35.2 .06 29.0 .009 9.0 .14 22.1 .02 19.3 .04

Civil servants 33.8
26.5
14.7
25.0
20.6

Employee 32.4
26.7
11.4
24.3
19.6

Apprentices 33.3
29.2
12.5
37.5
29.2

Unemployed 42.6
31.5
11.1
25.9
16.7

Pensioners 31.2
27.2
14.9
15.3
11.9

High School Students 13.2
4.4
2.9
13.2
10.3

Students (university/technical university) 32.6
23.9
5.4
20.7
15.2

Others 34.3
20.2
10.1
14.1
10.1
Health insurance










Statutory health insurance 34.4 .02 27.4 .03 12.0 .04 23.2 .07 17.7 .79

Private health insurance 25.8
19.6
6.9
17.1
16.0

No health insurance 16.7
16.7
0.0
33.3
16.7
Health care utilization










No treatment 20.3 <.001 13.8 <.001 3.6 <.001 10.1 <.001 8.7 .003

1 24.5
19.2
5.7
16.7
15.1

2 34.0
26.9
12.2
20.5
14.4

3 30.3
24.3
9.4
22.8
19.1

4 34.4
27.9
14.2
25.1
19.7

5+ 43.4
34.8
17.4
30.4
22.8
Internet use










> once a day 33.2 .32 26.4 .33 11.4 .67 22.7 .33 17.9 .14

once a day 25.3
18.5
7.9
15.2
10.7

> once a week 29.4
25.0
13.2
22.1
22.1

once a week 40.0
20.0
0.0
20.0
0.0

> once a day 0.00
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

once a month 0.00
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
WHO-5 health status










Overall, mean (SD) 14.53 (5.59) .97 14.43 (5.72) .66 15.12 (6.24) .15 14.55 (5.62) .95 14.56 (5.36) .94

Poor (<13), n (%) 31.4 .58 25.4 .95 10.3 .31 21.6 .71 16.8 .73

Good (>), n (%) 32.8
25.6
11.9
22.4
17.5

a P value was calculated using chi-square test or t test.