Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristic of the participants.
| Variables | Doctors(N = 3621) n(%) |
Nurses(N = 5561) n(%) |
Patients(N = 8022) n(%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | |||
| Female | 1388(39.0) | 5389(98.2) | 3616(47.4) |
| Male | 2173(61.0) | 96(1.8) | 4019(52.6) |
| missing | 60 | 76 | 387 |
| Age | |||
| ≤ 44 years old | 2804(84.4) | 4939(94.7) | 2966(37.6) |
| 45–59 years old | 495(14.9) | 277(5.3) | 2247(28.5) |
| ≥ 60 years old | 24(0.7) | 0 | 2678(33.9) |
| missing | 298 | 345 | 131 |
| Education status a,b | |||
| Undergraduate and below | 1556(46.0) | 2524(48.7) | 3901(49.6) |
| Masters | 1477(43.6) | 2607(50.3) | 2296(29.2) |
| PhD | 351(10.4) | 49(0.9) | 1661(21.1) |
| missing | 237 | 381 | 164 |
| Marital status | |||
| Single/divorced/widowed/other | 945(27.3) | 2295(42.8) | 1538(19.4) |
| Married | 2518(72.7) | 3064(57.2) | 6365(80.6) |
| missing | 158 | 202 | 119 |
| Self-reported economic status | |||
| Poor | 1394(38.7) | 2313(42.2) | 1457(18.2) |
| Fair | 1976(54.9) | 2902(52.9) | 4386(54.9) |
| Good | 228(6.3) | 266(4.9) | 2146(26.9) |
| missing | 23 | 80 | 33 |
a Education status of nurses was: Junior college and lower, Undergraduate, Masters and above.
b Education status of patients was: Junior high school and lower, Senior high school, Undergraduate and above.