Table 1.
Frequency distribution of selected demographics per type of health care providera
| Variable | Type of health care provider | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor n (%) |
Nurse | Pharmacist | Other | Total | |
| Response rate | 77 (21.3) | 172 (47.5) | 30 (8.3) | 83 (22.9) | 362 (60.3) |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 45 (58.4) | 10 (5.8) | 12 (40.0) | 45 (54.2) | 112 (30.9) |
| Female | 32 (41.6) | 162 (94.2) | 18 (60.0) | 38 (45.8) | 250 (69.1) |
| Years of practice | |||||
| < 5 | 43 (55.8) | 49 (25.8) | 20 (66.7) | 35 (42.7) | 148 (40.6) |
| 5–10 | 8 (10.4) | 46 (26.7) | 3 (10.0) | 10 (12.2) | 67 (18.5) |
| 11–20 | 4 (5.2) | 20 (11.6) | 4 (13.3) | 9 (11.0) | 37 (10.2) |
| 21–30 | 7 (9.1) | 16 (9.3) | 2 (6.7) | 8 (9.8) | 33 (9.1) |
| 31–40 | 13 (16.9) | 28 (16.3) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (15.9) | 54 (14.9) |
| > 40 | 2 (2.6) | 13 (7.6) | 1 (3.3) | 7 (8.5) | 23 (6.4) |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Afro-Trinbagonian | 11 (14.3) | 63 (36.8) | 1 (3.3) | 8 (9.6) | 83 (22.9) |
| Indo-Trinbagonian | 50 (64.9) | 72 (42.1) | 28 (80.0) | 56 (67.5) | 202 (55.8) |
| Mixed | 11 (14.3) | 33 (19.3) | 4 (13.3) | 14 (16.9) | 62 (17.1) |
| Other | 5 (6.5) | 3 (1.8) | 1 (3.3) | 5 (6.0) | 15 (4.2) |
| Religious affiliation | |||||
| None | 1 (1.6) | 10 (7.2) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (4.4) | 14 (3.9) |
| Islamism | 9 (14.8) | 8 (5.8) | 6 (21.6) | 5 (7.4) | 28 (7.8) |
| Hinduism | 22 (36.1) | 21 (21.0) | 7 (30.4) | 18 (26.5) | 76 (21.0) |
| Christianity | 29 (47.5) | 91 (65.9) | 10 (43.5) | 42 (61.8) | 172 (47.5) |
| Religiosity | |||||
| Not religious | 12 (16.7) | 20 (11.8) | 1 (3.3) | 9 (10.8) | 42 (11.6) |
| Not very religious | 22 (30.6) | 59 (34.9) | 14 (46.7) | 31 (37.3) | 126 (34.8) |
| Very religious | 33 (45.8) | 87 (51.5) | 15 (50.0) | 40 (48.2) | 175 (48.3) |
| Extremely religious | 5 (6.9) | 3 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (3.6) | 11 (3.0) |
aExcludes non-responses
Data are the number (percentage)