Table 2.
Participant responses to the question: thinking about your last visit to a GP, how good was the doctor at explaining your health conditions and treatments in a way that you could understand?
| Factors | Very good/Good | Neither good nor bad/poor or very poor | Doesn’t apply | Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 175 | % | n = 18 | % | n = 2 | N = 195 | % | p | |
| TDI | ||||||||
| < 120 days | 73 | 92.4 | 5 | 6.3 | 1 | 79 | 40.5 | 0.919 |
| > 120 days | 90 | 86.5 | 13 | 12.5 | 1 | 104 | 53.3 | |
| Unknown | 12 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 12 | 6.2 | |
| Age | ||||||||
| < 60 | 42 | 85.7 | 6 | 12.2 | 1 | 49 | 25.1 | 0.270 |
| 60+ | 133 | 91.1 | 12 | 8.2 | 1 | 146 | 74.9 | |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 97 | 89.0 | 10 | 9.2 | 2 | 109 | 55.9 | 0.404 |
| Female | 78 | 90.7 | 8 | 9.3 | 0 | 86 | 44.1 | |
| Ethnicity | ||||||||
| non-Māori | 148 | 89.7 | 16 | 9.7 | 1 | 165 | 84.6 | 0.883 |
| Māori | 26 | 89.7 | 2 | 6.9 | 1 | 29 | 14.9 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Comorbidity | ||||||||
| 0–1 | 139 | 89.1 | 15 | 9.6 | 2 | 156 | 80.0 | 0.071 |
| 2+ | 36 | 92.3 | 3 | 7.7 | 0 | 39 | 20.0 | |