Table 1.

Participant characteristics

	Frequency (n)	Proportion (%)	Khi-2 (p-value)
Patients
Sex	1765a		0.1164
Male	593	33.6
Female	1172	66.4
Age	1752a		0.4720
18–25	100	5.7
25–34	213	12.2
35–44	249	14.2
45–54	351	20.0
55–64	393	22.4
65 and over	446	25.5
Income	1731a		0.4777
Below average	377	21.8
About average	1011	58.4
Above average	343	19.4
Fluency in French or English	1752a		0.3931
Fluent	1520	86.8
Sufficiently	140	8.0
Moderately	46	2.6
Little	35	2.0
Not at all	11	0.6
Education	1749a		0.2534
No qualifications, primary, or lower secondary	275	15.7
Upper secondary education (grades 10–12)	622	35.6
Post-secondary education (college, undergraduate)	852	48.7
Employment status	1798a		0.0340
Working	960	53.4
Retired	523	29.1
Unable to work	142	7.9
Other	192	10.7
General health status	1778a		0.0044
Very good	416	23.4
Good	881	49.6
Fair	420	23.6
Poor	61	3.4
Chronic conditions	1759a		0.2394
Yes	918	52.2
No	841	47.8
Family practitioners
Sex	215a		0.5886
Male	97	45.1
Female	118	54.9
Age	211a		0.6703
25–34	34	16.1
35–44	31	14.7
45–54	64	30.3
55 and over	82	38.9

^aTotal n are different due to different partial non-response rate to each question