Table 2 General characteristics of participants, by outpatients and inpatients
From: Validation of the patient-reported experience measure for care in Chinese hospitals (PREM-CCH)
Outpatients (n=2293) | Inpatients (n=1510) | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | n | % | n | ||
Age (Mean±SD) | 41.1±17.3 | 55.7±17.5 | < 0.001 | ||
Age group (years) | < 0.001 | ||||
 18–24 | 17.4 | 398 | 4.2 | 64 | |
 25–34 | 28.5 | 653 | 10.6 | 160 | |
 35–44 | 14.7 | 337 | 10.7 | 161 | |
 45–54 | 16.0 | 368 | 21.7 | 327 | |
55–64 | 10.6 | 242 | 18.5 | 279 | |
 ≧65 | 12.9 | 295 | 34.4 | 519 | |
Sex | < 0.001 | ||||
 Men | 37.2 | 854 | 50.4 | 761 | |
 Women | 62.8 | 1439 | 49.6 | 749 | |
Educational level | < 0.001 | ||||
 Primary school and below | 18.8 | 431 | 40.1 | 605 | |
 Middle school | 28.4 | 652 | 34.3 | 518 | |
 High school | 15.0 | 344 | 12.1 | 183 | |
 College and above | 37.8 | 866 | 13.5 | 204 | |
Income group | < 0.001 | ||||
 First group | 38.7 | 887 | 55.0 | 831 | |
 Second group | 43.9 | 1007 | 33.2 | 502 | |
 Third group | 14.8 | 340 | 10.0 | 151 | |
 Fourth group | 1.5 | 35 | 1.0 | 15 | |
 Cannot tell | 1.0 | 24 | 0.7 | 11 | |
Self-reported disease seriousness | < 0.001 | ||||
 Not serious | 21.8 | 500 | 7.9 | 119 | |
 Not very serious | 14.9 | 342 | 8.1 | 123 | |
 Neither serious nor not serious | 38.4 | 881 | 19.2 | 290 | |
 Rather serious | 21.9 | 502 | 44.7 | 675 | |
 Very serious | 3.0 | 68 | 20.1 | 303 | |