Level | Responder | Sample | Official statistics | |
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n | 1 719 | 12 004 | 54 741 a | |
Gender (%) | male | 755 (44.6) | 6 063 (50.5) | 30 201 (55.2) a |
female | 936 (55.4) | 5 940 (49.5) | 24 540 (44.8) a | |
Medical specialty (%)d | General medicine | 1 134 (67.4) | 6 960 (58.0) | 34 751 (62.0) a |
Internal medicine | 429 (25.5) | 3 543 (29.5) | 15 417 (27.5) a | |
Other or none | 77 (4.6) | 1 501 (12.5) | 4 852 (8.7) a | |
General and internal medicine | 42 (2.5) | - | 1 047 (1.9) b | |
Years of experience as PCP (%) | 0–10 years | 454 (27.4) | - | |
11–20 years | 540 (32.5) | - | ||
21–30 years | 454 (27.4) | - | ||
> 30 years | 211 (12.7) | - | ||
Practice setting (%) | Own practice | 836 (50.1) | - | 26 823 (49.0) c |
Collaborative practice | 834 (49.9) | - | 27 918 (51.0) c | |
Number of patients (%) | less than 500 | 53 (3.2) | - | 1 642 (3.0) c |
500–1000 | 654 (39.7) | - | 11 879 (21.7) c | |
more than 1000 | 942 (57.2) | - | 37 224 (68.0) c | |
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Practice region (%) | Rural (max. 4 999 Inh.) | 321 (19.6) | - | |
Small town (5 000 to 19 999 Inh.) | 369 (22.5) | - | ||
Medium town (20 000 to 99 999 Inh.) | 351 (21.4) | - | ||
Large town (above 100 000 Inh.) | 599 (36.5) | - | ||
Additional qualification (%) | Psychotherapy | 98 (5.7) | - | |
Basic psychosomatic care | 1 163 (67.7) | - | ||
other or none | 458 (26.6) | - | ||
Weekly proportion of patients with somatoform disorders (%) | 0–10% | 711 (51.4) | - | |
11–20% | 342 (24.7) | - | ||
21–30% | 208 (15.0) | - | ||
> 30% | 123 (8.9) | - |