Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of general practitioners (GPs) and their patients; characterization of GP practice and their perception of the self-management skills of patients in terms of health (N=174).

Variables		Values
Age of GP (years), mean (SD)		45.1 (13.0)
Gender of GP, n (%)
	Male	112 (64.4)
	Female	62 (35.6)
Time spent promoting good health behaviors during consultations (consultation %), n (%)
	0-20	45 (25.9)
	20-30	49 (28.2)
	30-50	49 (28.2)
	50-100	31 (17.8)
Participation in a continued education program during the previous year, n (%)
	No	14 (8)
	Yes	160 (91.9)
Participation in a peer group during the previous year, n (%)
	No	93 (53.4)
	Yes	81 (46.6)
Subscription to a professional magazine, n (%)
	No	34 (19.5)
	Yes	140 (80.5)
Part of a social network for physicians, n (%)
	No	105 (60.3)
	Yes	69 (39.7)
Age of patients in the previous month (years), n (%)
	0-44	31 (17.8)
	45-69	65 (37.4)
	70 and older	20 (11.5)
	Other (not characterizable)	58 (33.3)
Patient base place of residence (GPs perceived): urban setting (0)-rural setting (6), mean (SD)		3.3 (2.1)
Patient base socioeconomic status (GPs perceived): low (0)-high (6), mean (SD)		3.4 (1.5)
Patient base command of the French language (GPs perceived): poor (0)-excellent (6), mean (SD)		4.6 (1.6)
Patient skills in self-management of their healtha (GPs perceived; prevention behaviors, autonomous health management, and assessment of the reliability of information): low (0)-high (100), mean (SD)		49 (15.3)

^aInternal consistency (Cronbach α)=.80.