Table 1.

Sociodemographic and employment characteristics of the subjects studied, according to the method for collecting and obtaining the information.

Variables	Total sample	Sample according to data collection method (n = 1,038)		p
		SAS (n = 624)	semFYC (n = 414)
Age (mean ± SD)	45.6 ± 11.7	46.5 ± 11.5	44.3 ± 11.8	0.003*
Sex (%)
Male	30.8	33.0	27.5	0.061**
Female	69.2	67.0	72.5
Area of residence (%)
Urban	90.7	85.4	80.0	<0.001**
Rural	9.3	14.6	20.0
Professional status (%)
Healthcare	79.8	67.0	100.0	<0.001**
Non-healthcare	20.2	33.0	0.0
Profession in the health system (%)
Family doctor	51.7	28.2	97.8	<0.001**
Nurse	13.4	27.3	1.7
Nurse's aide	9.6	20.7	0.0
Orderly	1.7	3.7	0.0
Administrative staff	2.4	5.2	0.0
Other	7.1	14.9	0.5
Type of health insurance (%)
Public	83.1	75.3	94.9	<0.001**
Private	4.2	6.9	0.2
Both of them	12.6	17.8	4.8

SD: standard deviation; SAS: Andalusian Health Service; semFYC: Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine.

^*P value obtained by the Student's t-test.

^**P values obtained by the χ² test.