Table 1 Demographic information and predictor variables (n = 740)
Variables | Descriptive statistics |
|---|---|
Female gender, n (%) | 355 (48.0) |
Age in years, mean ± SD | 56.6 ± 13.2 |
Education level, n (%) | |
Low | 174 (23.5) |
Intermediate | 291 (39.3) |
High | 275 (37.2) |
Employment status, n (%) | |
Unemployed | 379 (51.2) |
Employed | 360 (48.7) |
Health insurance, n (%) | |
Private | 86 (11.6) |
Statutory | 651 (88.0) |
Comorbidities | |
None, n (%) | 197 (26.6) |
At least one, n (%), among them | 543 (73.4) |
Cancer, n (%) | 157 (28.9) |
Type 1 diabetes, n (%) | 55 (10.1) |
Type 2 diabetes, n (%) | 74 (13.6) |
Chronic heart failure, n (%) | 67 (12.3) |
Chronic bronchitis, n (%) | 70 (12.9) |
Chronic renal failure, n (%) | 1 (0.2) |
Chronic liver disease, n (%) | 47 (8.7) |
Chronic neurological disease, n (%) | 1 (0.2) |
Overweight, n (%) | 19 (3.5) |
Severe rheumatic disease, n (%) | 52 (9.6) |
Severe psoriasis, n (%) | 50 (9.2) |
HIV infection, n (%) | 81 (14.9) |
Asplenia, n (%) | 0 (0.0) |
Autoimmune disease, n (%) | 2 (0.4) |
Health Information Seeking Behaviour | |
Frequency of health information seeking, n (%)a | |
< 1 × per month | 334 (45.1) |
1 × per month | 158 (21.4) |
1 × per week | 122 (16.5) |
> 1 × per week | 123 (16.6) |
No. of sources of health information, mean ± SD | 3.5 ± 2.1 |
Health literacy, mean ± SD | 2.68 ± 0.80 |
Urgency rating of medical situations, mean ± SDb | 0.90 ± 0.33 |