Table 4.
Textual Data Analysis in All Responses and by Age Group
| Classification | All responsesa n (%) |
Responses in those aged <50 years n (%) |
Responses in those aged ≥50 years n (%) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group classification | … | … | … | <.001 |
| Symptom-centric | 628 (12.0) | 292 (12.3) | 336 (11.7) | … |
| Medical-centric | 803 (15.3) | 295 (12.4) | 508 (17.6) | … |
| Unclassified | 682 (13.0) | 280 (11.8) | 402 (14.0) | … |
| No response provided | 3137 (59.8) | 1504 (63.4) | 1633 (56.7) | … |
| Subgroup classification | … | … | … | .001 |
| Memory/language (A) | 412 (28.8) | 179 (30.5) | 233 (27.6) | … |
| Sleep/time (B) | 216 (15.1) | 113 (19.3) | 103 (12.2) | … |
| Disease/diagnose (C) | 232 (16.2) | 84 (14.3) | 148 (17.5) | … |
| Doctor/patient (D) | 294 (20.5) | 107 (18.2) | 187 (22.2) | … |
| Medication (E) | 277 (19.4) | 104 (17.7) | 173 (20.5) | … |
Abbreviations: n = number of participants; SD = standard deviation.
Categorical variables are presented as numbers and proportions. The chi-square test was used as appropriate to assess statistical differences between the groups.
a
A total of 74 responses were classified into 2 or more subgroups, for a total of 5250 responses.