Table 1.
Participant characteristics and descriptive statistics of PPOS and PCMI scores
| T1 participants (N = 204) | T2 participants (N = 95) | T2 non-participants (N = 109) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | p-value a) | ||
| Gender | Male | 112 | 54.9 | 56 | 59.0 | 56 | 51.4 | 0.278 |
| Female | 92 | 45.1 | 39 | 41.1 | 53 | 48.6 | ||
| Specialty orientation | Internal | 78 | 38.2 | 44 | 46.3 | 34 | 31.2 | 0.078 |
| Surgical | 50 | 24.5 | 19 | 20.0 | 31 | 28.4 | ||
| Other | 38 | 18.6 | 19 | 20.0 | 19 | 17.4 | ||
| undecided/missing | 38 | 18.6 | 13 | 13.7 | 25 | 22.9 | ||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Age | (years) | 26.24 | 3.26 | 25.82 | 2.73 | 26.61 | 3.63 | 0.087 |
| PPOS | 4.56 | 0.43 | 4.50 | 0.48 | 4.61 | 0.38 | 0.079 | |
| Share | 4.33 | 0.54 | 4.26 | 0.61 | 4.39 | 0.46 | 0.093 | |
| Care | 4.79 | 0.47 | 4.74 | 0.49 | 4.83 | 0.45 | 0.201 | |
| PCMI | 2.50 | 0.53 | 2.43 | 0.56 | 2.55 | 0.50 | 0.102 | |
PPOS patient–practitioner orientation scale, PCMI physician confidence in the medical interview
aDifferences between T2 participants and non-participants were examined by chi-square test or t-test