Table 1.
Characteristics of participants
| Variable (missing values) | Patients without appointment (n = 251) |
Patients with appointment (n = 250) |
p-values for group differences |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age in years (4) | 44 (16) | 50 (16) | < 0.001§ |
| Female (3) | 120 (48%) | 139 (56%) | 0.11* |
| Family status (4) | |||
| - single | 77 (31%) | 56 (23%) | |
| - unmarried in partnership | 38 (15%) | 21 (8%) | |
| - married | 129 (51%) | 155 (63%) | 0.005* |
| - widowed | 7 (3%) | 14 (6%) | |
| At least one child (3) | 154 (61%) | 178 (72%) | 0.01* |
| Privately insured (5) | 22 (9%) | 21 (13%) | 0.19* |
| High school graduation (10) | 82 (33%) | 63 (24%) | 0.07* |
| Patient in the practice since … years (60) | 8 (2, 15) | 8 (4, 20) | 0.13# |
| At least one chronic disease (3) | 71 (29%) | 113 (45%) | < 0.001 |
Values are means (standard deviations) for age, median (1. and 3. quartile) for years in practice, and absolute frequencies (percentages) for other variables. § = p-values from Student‘s t-test; # = from Mann-Whitney-U-Test; * = from chi2-test