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Table 3 Number of physicians (%) who would spend additional medical resources

From: Influence of psychiatric or social backgrounds on clinical decision making: a randomized, controlled multi-centre study

Patient impression (Likert scale)

Unfavourable (1–2)

Neutral (3)

Favourable (4–5)

p value*

Case A

 Q1

24 (72%)

106 (80%)

33 (89%)

0.20

 Q2

21 (64%)

79 (60%)

25 (68%)

0.67

 Q3

15 (45%)

79 (60%)

28 (76%)

<  0.05

 Q4

22 (67%)

79 (60%)

26 (70%)

0.45

Case B

 Q1

36 (84%)

106 (89%)

39 (98%)

0.08

 Q2

38 (88%)

113 (95%)

37 (93%)

0.37

 Q3

33 (77%)

96 (81%)

34 (85%)

0.63

 Q4

27 (63%)

63 (53%)

29 (73%)

0.07

Case C

 Q1

20 (63%)

102 (79%)

34 (83%)

0.10

 Q2

8 (25%)

65 (50%)

20 (49%)

<  0.05

 Q3

15 (47%)

95 (74%)

26 (63%)

<  0.05

 Q4

17 (53%)

64 (50%)

24 (59%)

0.60

Case D

 Q1

35 (97%)

129 (97%)

33 (100%)

0.40

 Q2

2 (6%)

24 (18%)

12 (36%)

<  0.01

 Q3

11 (31%)

62 (47%)

15 (45%)

0.21

 Q4

29 (81%)

128 (96%)

28 (85%)

<  0.01

Case E

 Q1

35 (95%)

127 (94%)

29 (97%)

0.84

 Q2

17 (46%)

85 (63%)

24 (80%)

<  0.05

 Q3

10 (27%)

58 (43%)

16 (53%)

0.08

 Q4

10 (27%)

72 (53%)

16 (53%)

<  0.05

Case F

 Q1

32 (58%)

94 (72%)

13 (81%)

0.10

 Q2

37 (67%)

97 (74%)

13 (81%)

0.46

 Q3

11 (20%)

31 (24%)

5 (31%)

0.64

 Q4

19 (35%)

76 (58%)

11 (69%)

<  0.01

Case G

 Q1

22 (92%)

130 (98%)

45 (98%)

0.26

 Q2

21 (88%)

128 (97%)

43 (93%)

0.17

 Q3

8 (33%)

38 (29%)

6 (13%)

0.06

 Q4

14 (58%)

97 (73%)

29 (63%)

0.20

Case H

 Q1

58 (97%)

124 (100%)

18 (100%)

0.09

 Q2

14 (23%)

47 (38%)

10 (56%)

<  0.05

 Q3

28 (47%)

84 (68%)

13 (72%)

<  0.05

 Q4

16 (27%)

59 (48%)

15 (83%)

<  0.01

  1. *: the statistical analysis was performed using the χ2 test