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Table 2 Statistics describing workload, the GP's attention for mental health problems and GP, practice and patient characteristics

From: Does the attention General Practitioners pay to their patients' mental health problems add to their workload? A cross sectional national survey

 

N

Mean (sd)

Variation coefficient

Workload

   

Hours worked weekly

154

43.72 (12.22)

27.95

Number of patient contacts weekly

133

112.64 (36.69)

32.57

Satisfaction with the available time (1–5)

164

2.91 (0.71)

24.40

Emotional exhaustion (0–6)

164

1.58 (0.79)

50.00

GP's attention for mental health problems

   

Role perception (1'not'-5 'fully')

187

3.07 (0.50)

16.29

% of psychological contacts

141

9.34 (3.30)

35.33

GP characteristics

   

% gender male

190

73%

-

Age

190

46.79 (6.58)

14.06

Personal list size

191

2072.30 (692.29)

33.41

Practice and patient characteristics

   

Degree of urbanisation of practice (1–5)

190

3.01 (1.31)

43.52

% publicly insured patients

191

64.31 (9.14)

14.21

% female patients

191

50.55 (2.79)

5.52

% patients 65+

191

12.61 (4.96)

39.33

% non-Western patients

190

6.25 (11.27)

180.32