Table 3.
Physicians’ profile and empathy score.
| Physicians profile | No. of physicians |
Empathy score categories |
Empathy score |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤105 |
>105 |
p-value | Median (IQR) | p-value | ||
| N | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| All physicians | 387 | 234 (60.5) | 153 (39.5) | 100 (89, 113) | ||
| Age (years) | 0.123 | 0.148 | ||||
| 20–25 years | 60 | 40 (66.7) | 20 (33.3) | 99.5 (88, 109) | ||
| 26–30 years | 115 | 73 (63.5) | 42 (36.5) | 99 (89, 112) | ||
| 31–35 years | 99 | 63 (63.6) | 36 (36.4) | 100 (91, 111) | ||
| 36–40 years | 66 | 37 (56.1) | 29 (43.9) | 101 (84, 114) | ||
| > 40 years | 47 | 21 (44.7) | 26 (55.3) | 107 (93, 122) | ||
| Gender | 0.497 | 0.699 | ||||
| Male | 222 | 131 (59.0) | 91 (41.0) | 100 (89, 113) | ||
| Female | 165 | 103 (62.4) | 62 (37.6) | 101 (91, 113) | ||
| Education | 0.590 | 0.753 | ||||
| Up to MBBS/diploma | 176 | 109 (61.9) | 67 (38.1) | 101 (89, 113) | ||
| MD or above | 211 | 125 (59.2) | 86 (40.8) | 100 (89, 113) | ||
| Health sector | 0.223 | 0.313 | ||||
| Government | 218 | 126 (57.8) | 92 (42.2) | 101.5 (89, 113) | ||
| Private | 169 | 108 (63.9) | 61 (36.1) | 99 (89, 112) | ||
| Level of health sector | 0.129 | 0.166 | ||||
| Private practice | 36 | 25 (69.4) | 11 (30.6) | 98 (90.5, 108.5) | ||
| Govt PHC/SHC | 93 | 48 (51.6) | 45 (48.4) | 105 (92, 114) | ||
| Govt medical college | 76 | 51 (67.1) | 25 (32.9) | 97.5 (87, 110.5) | ||
| Corporate/tertiary care hospital | 182 | 110 (60.4) | 72 (39.6) | 101 (90, 113) | ||
| Designation | 0.079 | 0.071 | ||||
| Intern/resident | 150 | 100 (66.7) | 50 (33.3) | 99 (87, 110) | ||
| Medical officer | 99 | 52 (52.5) | 47 (47.5) | 103 (92, 117) | ||
| Consultant/professor | 138 | 82 (59.4) | 56 (40.6) | 101 (91, 113) | ||
Note: ∗statistically significant; IQR – interquartile range; PHC – primary health center; SHC – secondary health center.