Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of survey’s participants

	Survey cohort N=1323	OR (95% CI)	p
Sex, n (%)
Male	564 (42.6)	1.48 (0.17–12.81)	0.72
Female	753 (56.9)	1.27 (0.15–10.90)	0.83
Other	6 (0.5)	Ref.	Ref.
Age, years mean (SD)	42.3 (12.6)	0.99 (0.98–1.01)	0.40
Age classes, n (%)
<29	180 (13.6)	0.91 (0.33–2.48)	0.86
30–39	498 (37.6)	1.29 (0.51–3.29)	0.59
40–49	252 (19.0)	1.64 (0.65–4.14)	0.29
50–59	232 (17.5)	1.31 (0.53–3.23)	0.56
60–69	126 (9.5)	1.25 (0.48–3.23)	0.64
≥70	35 (2.6)	Ref.	Ref.
European region, n (%)
Northern Europe	34 (2.6)	0.88 (0.24–3.24)	0.85
Western Europe	578 (43.7)	2.29 (0.51–10.28)	0.28
Eastern Europe	27 (2.0)	0.84 (0.23–3.09)	0.79
Southern Europe	670 (50.7)	1.82 (0.42–7.90)	0.42
Non-EU countries	13 (1.0)	Ref.	Ref.
Work setting, n (%)
General/primary care	1,126 (85.1)	Ref.	Ref.
Specialized care	77 (5.8)	0.89 (0.50–1.59)	0.69
Research centre	29 (2.2)	–	–
Other	91 (6.9)	1.47 (0.91–2.37)	0.11
Type of practice, n (%)
Public	989 (74.8)	1.28 (0.70–2.35)	0.42
Private	37 (2.8)	0.81 (0.29–2.22)	0.68
Public and private	204 (15.4)	1.12 (0.66–1.92)	0.67
Other	93 (7.0)	Ref.	Ref.
Role, n (%)
Junior physician	424 (32.0)	0.90 (0.47–1.75)	0.76
Attending physician/GP	595 (45.0)	1.17 (0.65–2.13)	0.60
Senior physician	226 (17.1)	1.25 (0.68–2.29)	0.48
Other	78 (5.9)	Ref.
Specialty, n (%)
Internal medicine/geriatric	803 (60.7)	0.86 (0.61–1.21)	0.37
Intensive care	33 (2.5)	1.04 (0.72–1.50)	0.82
Clinical sub-specialties	210 (15.9)	1.16 (0.51–2.61)	0.73
Physician in training/other	277 (20.9)	Ref.
Practice years, mean (SD)*	15.3 (12.5)	0.99 (0.98–1.00)	0.22
Practice years, n (%)*
0–4	292 (22.1)	Ref.	Ref.
5–9	293 (22.1)	0.79 (0.53–1.18)	0.26
10–19	290 (21.9)	1.05 (0.71–1.54)	0.81
20–39	365 (27.6)	0.87 (0.60–1.26)	0.46
≥40	76 (5.7)	0.57 (0.28–1.14)	0.11

GP General Practitioner, SD  Standard Deviation

*Data available in 1316 participants