Table 2.
Socio-demographic variables, patients, and relatives
| Sample characteristics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | Patients and relatives (n = 68) | Physicians (n = 39) |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 23 | 23 |
| Female | 45 | 16 |
| Age | ||
| Average | 51 | 46 |
| Maximum/Minimum | 85/18 | |
| Educational qualification | ||
| Abitur/A-levels | 13 | |
| Secondary education | 19 | |
| Technical collage/University | 19 | 39 |
| Advanced technical college degree | 12 | |
| Secondary modern school qualification | 5 | |
| Age at diagnosis | ||
| Average | 34 | |
| Maximum/Minimum | 74/0 | |
| Disease severity | ||
| No specification | 4 | |
| Low | 8 | |
| Medium | 28 | |
| Severe | 28 | |
| Profession | ||
| Employed | 31 | 39 |
| Housewife/Houseman | 2 | |
| Unemployable/Special circumstance | 15 | |
| Student/Scholar | 2 | |
| Pensioner | 18 | |