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. 2022 Aug 11;23:205. doi: 10.1186/s12875-022-01793-w

Table 2.

Characteristics of patients at baseline

All-SES implementation strategy
n = 135
SES-sens implementation strategy
n = 93
Sociodemographic factors
Age 40.6 (14.3) 39.6 (13.7)
Gender Female 103 (76%) 59 (63%)
Male 32 (24%) 34 (37%)
Marital status Not married 6 (45%) 48 (52%)
Married/Living with partner 67 (50%) 36 (39%)
Divorced 7 (5%) 9 (10%)
Widowed 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Country of birth The Netherlands 125 (93%) 81 (87%)
Other 10 (7%) 12 (13%)
Living arrangement Alone 15 (11%) 22 (24%)
Not alone 120 (89%) 71 (76%)
Education Low 25 (19%) 16 (17%)
Medium 66 (49%) 44 (48%)
High 44 (33%) 32 (35%)
Income Above social minimum 123 (91%) 77 (84%)
Employment Employed 105 (78%) 63 (68%)
Unemployed 3 (2%) 11 (12%)
Other (e.g. student, pension) 27 (20%) 19 (20%)
Clinical factors
Duration complaints  < 1 year 74 (55%) 47 (51%)
 ≥ 1 year 61 (45%) 46 (50%)
Severity complaints Low 25 (19%) 19 (20%)
High 110 (82%) 74 (80%)
Most troubling symptom Sleep 23 (17%) 18 (19%)
Stress 63 (47%) 27 (29%)
Worry 49 (36%) 48 (52%)
Depressive complaints (scale 0–24) 12.9 (4.8) 12.3 (5.4)
Sleep problems (scale 0–20) 12.7 (5.1) 11.9 (5.6)
Stress (scale 0–40) 23.5 (5.8) 23.2 (6.4)
Worry (scale 11–55) 40.1 (7.9) 40.3 (8.7)
Anxiety (scale 0–21) 11.4 (4.5) 11.2 (4.8)
Wellbeing (scale 0–100) 25.2 (16.5) 28.6 (19.7)
Implementation-related factors
Health literacy (scale 1–4) 3.0 (0.4) 3.0 (0.4)
Internet skill level Good/very good 122 (90%) 83 (89%)
I have previous experience with online interventions Yes 53 (40%) 32 (34%)
I expect the online CDMIs will reduce my complaints Agree a little/ completely 98 (73%) 62 (67%)
I expect that I am capable of using the online CDMIs Agree a little/ completely 121 (90%) 80 (86%)
I intend to use the CDMIs in the upcoming four weeks Agree a little/ completely 122 (90%) 81 (87%)

* Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. a Data are mean values (SD) or n (%)