Table 1.
Respondents’ characteristics
| Number | Percentage of all respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | ||
| Female | 112 | 71.3% |
| Male | 45 | 28.7% |
| Age | ||
| 20–30 | 0 | 0% |
| 31–40 | 24 | 15.3% |
| 41–50 | 73 | 46.5% |
| 51–60 | 32 | 20.4% |
| 61–70 | 18 | 11.5% |
| > 70 | 10 | 6.4% |
| Years in clinical practice | ||
| 0–10 | 13 | 8.3% |
| 11–20 | 45 | 28.7% |
| 21–30 | 56 | 35.7% |
| 31–40 | 28 | 17.8% |
| > 40 | 15 | 9.5% |
| Specialty* | ||
| Endocrinology | 147 | 93.6% |
| Internal medicine | 83 | 52.9% |
| Paediatric endocrinology | 23 | 14.6% |
| Family medicine | 6 | 3.8% |
| Nuclear medicine | 3 | 1.9% |
| Other | 18 | 11.5% |
| More than one | 105 | 66.9% |
| Type of practice* | ||
| University centre | 40 | 25.5% |
| Regional hospital | 33 | 21.0% |
| Private clinic | 0 | 0% |
| General practice | 8 | 5.1% |
| Basic researcher | 2 | 1.3% |
| Specialist practice | 116 | 73.9% |
| More than one | 37 | 23.6% |
| Treating thyroid patients | ||
| Daily | 128 | 81.5% |
| Weekly | 28 | 17.8% |
| Rarely | 1 | 0.6% |
| Number of treated patients | ||
| > 100 patients/year | 126 | 80.2% |
| 51–100 patients/year | 24 | 15.3% |
| 10–50 patients/year | 7 | 4.5% |
*The sum of percentages exceeds 100% because 105 respondents had more than one specialty or were employed in more than one medical unit