Table 3.
Table showing mixed regression modelling of factors associated with CARE Measure score (model A) and with interaction effect (IE) of mask wearing on patients’ familiarity with the doctor (model B)
| |
Best fitted model A without interaction |
Best fitted model B with interaction |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Estimate | SE | P-value* | Estimate | SE | P-value |
| Intercept# |
35.76 |
1.07 |
|
35.64 |
1.06 |
|
| MASK |
-0.95 |
0.44 |
0.027 |
-0.76 |
0.45 |
0.0836 |
| Age |
0.42 |
0.33 |
0.201 |
0.42 |
0.33 |
0.1948 |
| General Health |
-1.51 |
0.34 |
<0.0001 |
-1.51 |
0.34 |
<0.0001 |
| Knowing the doctor well |
4.36 |
1.14 |
<0.0001 |
6.94 |
1.63 |
<0.0001 |
| Consultation time |
0.32 |
0.05 |
<0.0001 |
0.32 |
0.05 |
<0.0001 |
| Disease:Old |
-0.34 |
0.60 |
0.5704 |
-0.36 |
0.60 |
0.5948 |
| Disease:Both |
1.92 |
1.19 |
0.1130 |
1.82 |
1.18 |
0.1342 |
| MASK-Knowing the doctor well |
|
|
|
-4.91 |
2.22 |
0.0308 |
| Variance |
Between^ |
|
5.86 (2.42) |
|
|
5.81 (2.41) |
| component (SD) | Within | 47.00 (6.86) | 46.82 (6.84) | |||
#Reference group is patient aged <45 years old, the consulting doctor didn’t wear mask, good self-reported health, didn’t know the doctor well, average consultation time is 7.66 minutes, the consultation was for new (acute) illness.
*P-values were obtained by permutation test on 10,000 permuted sample.
^The variance component of doctor random effect.