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. 2023 Jan 5;20(2):978. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20020978

Table 3.

Correlations between: the frequency of Internet use and the number of patients seen on average per month by physicians, as well as digital and e-Health selected variables.

Digital Literacy—Own Skills Digital Literacy—The Need for Training The Impact of the Internet/New Technologies on Healthcare and Modern Life Recommendation of e-Health Solutions Evaluation of e-Health Solutions—The Patient Evaluation of e-Health Solutions—Medical Facility
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
The frequency of Internet use
several times a day −0.09 0.93 0.20 0.91 −0.14 0.97 −0.17 0.92 −0.25 0.66 0.02 0.92
everyday −0.22 0.76 −0.10 0.95 −0.07 0.93 0.17 1.05 −0.06 0.96 0.14 0.99
several times a week 0.11 0.60 −0.86 0.99 0.31 0.67 0.22 1.02 0.67 1.24 0.21 1.34
once a week 1.27 1.19 −0.58 1.14 0.91 0.54 0.88 0.89 1.66 1.08 −0.79 0.91
no use 1.36 1.83 −1.48 0.89 1.70 1.28 0.81 1.43 2.22 1.66 −0.22 1.76
F p F p F p F p F p F p
13.167 0.0000 12.133 0.0000 11.448 0.0000 7.045 0.0000 37.800 0.0000 3.343 0.0107
The number of patients seen on average per month
<50 0.01 1.09 −0.05 1.02 −0.35 0.89 −0.34 1.22 0.07 1.29 −0.42 0.65
50–100 −0.04 0.95 0.21 0.64 −0.23 0.85 0.28 0.75 −0.05 0.72 0.11 0.87
100–200 0.07 0.91 −0.04 1.34 0.17 1.00 0.23 1.01 0.40 1.15 0.44 1.22
>200 0.01 1.03 −0.10 1.06 0.19 1.06 −0.13 1.02 −0.08 1.00 −0.06 1.05
F p F p F p F p F p F p
0.102 0.9587 1.873 0.1341 5.371 0.0013 5.432 0.0012 2.371 0.0705 5.163 0.0017