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Table 1 Descriptive information of study participants (n, %)

From: Possible associations between callers’ degree-of-worry and their socioeconomic status when contacting out-of-hours services: a prospective cohort study

Demographics and socioeconomic variables on Degree-of-worry (DOW)

 

Total

n = 6869 (%)

Low (1–3)

n = 4243 (61.8)

High (4–5)

n = 2626 (38.2)

Gender

 Female

4007

2456 (61.3)

1551 (38.7)

 Male

2862

1787 (62.4)

1075 (37.6)

Age (year)

 Mean, SD

46.5 ± 20.0

43.4 ± 18.7

51.6 ± 20.9

 18–30

1920

1354 (70.5)

566 (29.5)

 31–40

1175

836 (71.1)

339 (28.9)

 41–50

1072

681 (63.5)

391 (36.5)

 51–60

915

527 (57,6)

388 (42.4)

 61–70

694

360 (51,9)

334 (48.1)

 71–80

639

292 (45.7)

347 (54.3)

 > 80

454

193 (42.5)

261 (57.5)

Educational level

 Low

1763

968 (54.9)

795 (45.1)

 Middle

2820

1773 (62.9)

1047 (37.1)

 High

1990

1349 (67.8)

641 (32.2)

 Missing

296

153 (51.7)

143 (48.3)

Household income, DKK

 Low (< 189,460)

2211

1218 (55.1)

993 (44.9)

 Middle (189,460-291,175)

1978

1225 (61.9)

753 (38.1)

 High (> 291,175)

1940

1300 (67.0)

640 (33.0)

 Missing

740

500 (67.6)

240 (32.4)

Marital status

 Married/cohabiting

3847

2450 (63.7)

1397 (36.3)

 Single

3022

1793 (59.3)

1229 (40.7)

Ethnicity

 Danish

5710

3678 (64.4)

2032 (35.6)

 Non-Danish Western

287

170 (59.2)

117 (40.8)

 Non-Western

872

395 (45.3)

477 (54.7)