Patients’ Need for Contact With Their Physician in Relation to Patient Characteristics
| Patients’ Need for Contact* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Scenarios† | Hospital Scenarios‡ | |||
| Characteristics | Mean Score | PValue | Mean Score | PValue |
| * A higher sum score means more need for contact. | ||||
| † Eigenvalue component 1.37; mean sum score 5.3 (SD 1.64). | ||||
| ‡ Eigenvalue component 3.21; mean sum score 13.9 (SD 7.10). | ||||
| Age, y | ||||
| 18–40 | 4.98 | 11.67 | ||
| 41–60 | 4.81 | <.001 | 13.43 | .040 |
| 61–80 | 4.25 | 14.23 | ||
| 81–100 | 3.22 | 14.14 | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 4.26 | .399 | 13.33 | .226 |
| Female | 4.38 | 13.78 | ||
| With children | ||||
| Yes | 4.99 | <.001 | 13. 68 | .440 |
| No | 3.65 | 13.06 | ||
| Years in the practice | ||||
| <1 | 4.65 | 14.69 | ||
| 1–2 | 4.44 | 13.60 | ||
| 3–4 | 3.90 | .053 | 12.36 | .169 |
| 5–10 | 4.57 | 14.12 | ||
| >10 | 4.03 | 12.09 | ||
| Physician contacts in the past year | ||||
| 1–2 | 4.18 | 14.86 | ||
| 3–4 | 4.21 | .019 | 13.79 | .069 |
| 5–10 | 4.35 | 12.60 | ||
| >10 | 4.54 | 12.23 | ||
| Chronic illness | ||||
| Yes | 4.22 | .191 | 13.48 | .742 |
| No | 4.42 | 13.26 | ||
| Distance from hospital (km) | ||||
| <5 | 4.19 | 13.33 | ||
| 5–9 | 4.21 | .680 | 13.28 | .933 |
| 10–20 | 4.35 | 12.96 | ||
| >20 | 4.54 | 13.92 | ||
| Hospital admission in past year | ||||
| Yes | 4.28 | .552 | 13.05 | .313 |
| No | 4.36 | 13.68 | ||
| Serious life event last five years | ||||
| Yes | 4.39 | .335 | 13.30 | .787 |
| No | 4.24 | 13.46 | ||
| Serious psychosocial problem past 5 years | ||||
| Yes | 4.27 | 13.64 | ||
| No | 4.37 | .580 | 13.10 | .491 |
| Variance explained by model, % | 16 | 8 | ||